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We come finally to our fifth strategy for picking the perfect speaking topic: It has to be profitable. The most important aspect of this is that it has to be profitable for you and it also has to be profitable for the people who are listening to you. It needs to be a win-win experience for all.
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So when you are designing your talk, stay focused on the overall purpose of your presentations: to generate sales and revenue. Obviously, making money and profit is the main goal for every business.
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Abigail Williams is an original character created by Miller in The Crucible, but she is based on a real historical figure, Anne Putnam.
"The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, and were based on the accusations of a twelve-year-old girl named Anne Putnam" ("The Crucible: Introduction").
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DC can come from your neighbors on the same feed as you....I notice my transformer will hum only occasionally at different times of the day...has to be from something my neighbors are running...have tried DC removal devices and none ever worked
The PS Audio Humbuster III is working well in my system. It's main goal is to eliminate as much DC as possible coming into the system.
My system isn't humming.
Peter, what model Classe amp do you have ? A lot of later production CA-XX0 series amps have DC blocking circuitry, and for earlier production models that did not have it, the DC blocker circuit board was available as a retrofit.
A couple hundred millivolts of DC is all it takes to cause transformer hum. Abnormal high voltage and harmonic distortion can also cause hum. DC blockers will not eliminate hum caused by harmonic distortion.
DC can be caused by a variety of devices, including but not limited to light dimmers, appliance speed or temperature controls, washing machine motors, refrigerator and air conditioner compressors, etc.
The PS Audio Humbuster and Channel Islands XDC-2 AC filter should eliminate most transformer noise caused by DC. There is also the DIY option. I've done DC blockers for a few Audiogon members at a fraction of the cost of the "big boys".
As mentioned above, DC can come from a neighbor's house. It can also be generated in your own house. I would investigate in-house sources before looking for a solution. Look for possible sources, shut off all breakers and see if the noise goes away.
I don't know of any power company DC spec.
whould a power regenerator (Purepower, PS audio) remove the hum/buzz caused by the DC on the line?
Thanks Gbart. I'm using Classe Omega amplifiers. I just measured my outlet for DC, and am seeing about 200 mv. I had an air compressor plugged in that night, and maybe it went on and the motor increased my outlet DC?
Power regenerators do NOT remove DC. I use a PS Audio Premier Power Plant in conjunction with the Humbuster III to eliminate the DC on the line that is not addressed by a regenerator.
I've been told that a buzz/hum from an amp can be caused by "odd harmonics on your home AC". Is this the same as 'DC on the line' as Peter in first post was told ? And if different what sort of conditioner is best to 'cure' this?
By the way, I'm using an Environmental Potentials home surge protector / conditioner as discussed inthis
thread. As it is on a breaker, I can take it out of the system.
Oh - and the question still remains - how much DC offset is problematic on an AC line for equipment?
Pcoombs, harmonic distortion and DC are two different phenomenon. A UPS or power regenerator like one of the PS Audio units should cure harmonic distortion issues.
Peter_s, I said in my post above that as little as couple hundred millivolts of DC can cause a transformer to hum or buzz.
I struggled with this issue for quite some time a couple years back. IMO Gbart has summed the situation up nicely.
'being an electronics hacker, I constructed a DC offset blocker for AC line, and all was fine.
I have noticed for instance that in the case of Bryston, at least the amps I have looked at in fact have this DC block built in. ( I don't own Bryston, it's just that they publish schematics on their web site, and the circuitry is shown )
It is my understanding you cannot measure DC on the AC mains just by connecting your digital meter, set on DC voltage, across the mains.Not trying to start a flame buthttp://www.diyaudio.com/forums/solid-state/2080-dc-filter.htmlEva
Jea48, its easy to measure DC on top of AC if one uses a Fluke RMS meter. My Fluke 77 measures it accurately. I see less than 100 mV at most friend's homes.
I have seen a few noisy power transformers (including toroidal ones) when DC measures more than roughly 200 mV.
Most hum on power transformers is caused by DC on the power line. The source could be anywhere. It could be caused by a poorly designed switching power supply in a Television or a light dimmer. You can DIY a DC filter to take the DC off the power line before the power transformer or purchase something like PS Audio's Humbuster 3.
Does it matter, since the power supplys converts to DC anyway? ***** NEWS FLASH, All your stuff really works off of DC ********
How much AC is okay on a battery power supply?
It matters if you don't want your power supply transformer to hum loudly. If you are trying to be a smart ass, all you have done is made a ass out of yourself.
Quote from article.
How DC Appears on the Mains
There are any number of different machines that can create a mains supply DC offset. Most will be totally outside your control, many DC "events" will be transient in nature, but one common theme applies - they will all load the mains supply asymmetrically for a period of time that ranges from a couple of cycles to minutes at a time. Figure 1 shows a typical (small) example that you may even have in your house - the transformer (shown within the dotted line) is your toroidal transformer. Many older hairdryers (and some heat guns as well) had a switch for "half power" that simply switched a diode in series with the mains. For a 240W element at 240V, that equates to a resistance of 240 Ohms (example only - actual power will vary widely).
If a diode is switched in series with the heating element, this reduces the voltage and hence the power (actual power will be almost exactly half). However, by half-wave rectifying the mains in this manner, there is an inevitable interaction with the mains impedance.
Figure 1 - Half-Wave Rectified Appliance, Transformer & Mains Wiring
The arrangement shown above assumes that the mains has zero impedance. Actual impedance is shown as R1, which varies from one house to the next. The value of 800 milliohms was chosen because this is what I measured at my workbench. Your mains may be better or worse than this.
After the asymmetrical load has done its job, a simulation shows the positive peaks of the 240V AC waveform reach 338.35V, but the (unloaded) negative peaks reach the proper value of 339.28V. This is a tiny bit less than the theoretical value of 339.41V because of the transformer load resistance and simulator resolution. The difference between the peak voltages is 0.93V, but the mean (average) DC voltage is -275mV. It is the mean value that appears as "DC" on the mains. It can also be measured, but to do so requires that one works on live components. This is not recommended as it is inherently dangerous. However, if you must (and PLEASE take extreme care), you need a 100k resistor and a 10uF non-polarised capacitor, wired in series. Connect this circuit across the mains (power off!), and connect a DC voltmeter across the capacitor. This attenuates the AC enough to prevent the front-end of the meter from being overloaded, and the DC voltage is easy to measure. Expect to see the DC vary around the zero voltage, with a normal variation of +/-25mV or so (typical - residential areas). The alternative method is to measure the DC across the diode/capacitor network in the circuit of Figure 3. Do not connect or disconnect the meter with the circuit live, and use alligator clip leads to make the connections.
With a half wave rectified load, the mean DC level is 275mV as described above - polarity is not important, because either polarity will be as bad as the other. If a transformer has a primary DC resistance of 2 ohms, there will be an effective DC current of 137.5mA in the primary. This is many times the current needed to cause the core to saturate during the negative half cycle of the AC waveform. Remember that with a toroidal core, saturation is a "hard limit". Because there is no air gap (intentional or otherwise), when the saturation limit is reached, inductance falls and current rises rapidly.
Tests were done using a 500VA toroidal transformer with very close to the example values given above. With 240V AC mains, 50Hz, 264mV DC offset created by DC injection (see Figure 6), and at no load, the current was seen to rise from 16mA to 218mA. The test was done at no load because this is the worst possible case. As load increases, the effective primary voltage falls - the voltage dropped across the winding's resistance is "lost" to the transformer. 264mV DC offset causes a current of 132mA DC in the transformer primary. This is probably the maximum offset that you will encounter in real life, although some areas may be worse. I have no data on this.
End of quote.
^^^Give me your address and i will send you a royality fee..sounds like you already own the market for being an a-hole.
That is exactly the type of response I would have expected from you. Sad, just very sad.
nothing that an isolation transformer can't fix.
All my low current stuff goes thru a small, 400va iso transfomer and it and the gear are dead quiet.
I have to take umbrage with the quote above. Unless there is a center-tap on the primary side of the power transformer (and there never is) this DC thing is of no consequence whatsoever as the power transformer will simply see that total voltage across its windings.
It may be a distorted waveform, but there won't be any DC. Keep in mind that one thing transformers get used for all the time is to block DC, and values at considerably higher levels than just a few millivolts.
However, *something* does happen, the distortion I just mentioned. Fluke Instruments published a very nice white paper about 20 years ago that explores this phenomena. It turns out that the primary (no pun intended...) cause of mechanical noise in power transformers is the 5th harmonic (300Hz in the US). The paper also gives a formula to allow one to calculate the distortion on the AC line, if you know the current drawn and the source impedance of the line transformer (perhaps the one on the power pole outside your house) winding.
The 5th harmonic can cause power transformers to become mechanically noisy, power rectifiers to radiate mechanical and electrical noise, and creates forces in hysteresis motors that can make them run backwards.
Not sure what a center-tap on the primary would have to do with DC voltage on the mains.
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If you are experiencing mechanical hum from your
transformer, it is often caused by the presence of
DC on the line. Usually this comes from some appliance
using current asymmetrically, such as a lamp dimmer.
The hum comes usually from toroidal transformers, which
saturate easily with DC, and when they recover, they
draw an extra pulse of current, causing the noise.
You can put a pair of back-to-back electrolytics in series
with the AC power line to block this, and it works fine.
Makes sure the current rating of the electrolytics is
high enough, and the they are joined at a like polarity,
such as + to +.
I've done some measurements that show what's really hapening when you connect a transformer to mains
Using a lowpass filter [100k + 47uF] I have measured about 50mV average over time of DC on my mains supply
I also have an old electric heater that in half-power mode uses a diode in series with the heat element to pass only half of the mains waveform. When I plug this heater in half-power mode I get an additional 1V of offset on mains supply
To test the need and the efficiency of DC filtering, I've done some measuremens of the current through the primary of a 750VA toroidal transformer
This oscillogram shows what happens when I connect the transformer to mains and let it deal with the 50mV DC offset
Eva gives actual hands on test data....
Hmm. So, with the AC line having one side at ground, there's supposed to be a DC level? The idea that a hair dryer can shift the ground potential to a DC level seem far fetched- it would require that the neutral side of the AC line be not connected to ground.
Distortion, OTOH, is the sort of thing that both Nelson and Eva were describing.
What does one AC line conductor, (neutral conductor), of the electrical service intentionally connected to earth have to do with it.
The main reasons for connecting the service neutral conductor to earth is for lightning protection and to establish one common ground plane.
Distortion, OTOH, is the sort of thing that both Nelson and Eva were describing.
How does the DC blocker filter block out the distortion?
Eva has many follow-up posts throughout the running of the thread. Like I said in my earlier post she ran hands on experiments and tests.
If I get a chance tomorrow I will visit the archives on AA. I remember John Curl posting about DC voltage on the mains.
Well Jim, I'm certainly open to finding out I've been wrong about things. Its how we learn :)
As far as the earth connection, what I am talking about here is that the hot side of the line is measured with respect to the neutral (ground). So if there is a DC component present, the AC voltage will be shifted with respect to the neutral. *That*, since the neutral is tied to the earth connection, will take some current and will likely heat the wiring up in the process.
Now if you have as an example Eva's hair dryer, running on half power so it its only conducting when the diode conducts, I can see that that might be interpreted as DC. But, it can also be interpreted as harmonic distortion. I'm not arguing, IOW, that the phenomena does not exist, just the explanation. One could as easily argue that a 2nd harmonic in the output of an amplifier is a DC phenomena as well.
I would like to see Eva's scope readings, but the images don't load off of DIYaudio.
I am not dismissing what you are saying about odd harmonics. They can and do play havoc on AC power systems.
They can cause the secondaries of power distribution transformers to run hotter than normal. And yes be mechanically noisier than normal.
Gbart, could you make a dc line filter / blocker for me? If so, can you email me at: white 78 911 at hotmail dot com
Is DC offset the product of harmonics?
My balanced power conditioner (Isoclean) was humming/buzzing loudly, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days, with no predictable pattern, and this was on a dedicated line. I put the Channel Islands XDC-2 between the wall outlet and the Isoclean unit, and the problem immediately and permanently disappeared.
Forgot to post that @Gbart built me a very nice custom DC blocker that allowed me to not only address my transformer hum in my preamp but also use the outlet I wanted, which is one of Al Porter's Ports.
Great service and product all around. :)
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New textbook on the production of field crops in tropical Africa
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CTA. 1992. New textbook on the production of field crops in tropical Africa. Spore 39. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Field crop production in tropical Africa by I C Onwueme and T D Sinha 480pp 1991 ISBN 92 9081 086 6 Published by, and available from, CTA
Most governments in tropical Africa have given substantial encouragement to field crop production, but the study and practice of crop production is in a constant state of change. Within the last two decades scientific research has progressed rapidly in most countries of Africa, but research achievements in crop production are generally published in agricultural science journals which are not easily available to students in schools, universities and colleges of agriculture. A new CTA publication Field crop production in tropical Africa by I C Onwueme and T D Sinha brings progress in scientific research and practice in crop production within the easy reach of students of agriculture. It provides a comprehensive text for an introductory course in field crop production and combines detailed treatment of agronomic principles with a crop-by-crop treatment of the major field crops of tropical Africa. The authors explain that the most important phase in the history of the dispersal of crops from their centres of origin to other parts of the world followed the enormous expansion of world trade during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During the sixteenth century New World crops (i.e. crops indigenous to the Americas) such as maize, groundnuts, sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes and cassava were introduced to other parts of the tropics. The most recent developments in the dispersal of crops have been associated with the expansion of international agricultural research. Although there are relatively few indigenous plants of outstanding economic value in Africa, there are now many introduced crops which have been accepted-and are grown on a large scale. Part I of Field crop production in tropical Africa looks at agronomic practices generally and particularly at climatic factors, soil fertility and conservation, irrigation and drainage. Part II covers each crop in detail within categories such as cereals, roots and tubers, grain legumes, oilseed crops, and fibre crops. Sugarcane, tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa and pare rubber are also covered. Botanical descriptions of each crop are followed by details of cultivation and crop protection methods. The book is illustrated with line drawings and black-andwhite photographs. Although the book is written mainly for undergraduate students, it may also be useful to postgraduate students of agronomy, research workers, agricultural extension officers and progressive farmers. Field crop production in tropical Africa by I C Onwueme and T D Sinha 480pp 1991 ISBN 92 9081 086 6 Published by, and available from, CTA
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FirstenLED adds New Model LED Light Bulbs to the Lighting Structure of Homes
“FirstenLED has increased its branding in the line of LED lighting by adding some improved features in the LED devices that are to be used in and around the home. The LED light bulbs have the ability to save close to 90% of the average energy costs that are allocated to home consumption.”
(PRWEB) October 31, 2012
In expanding how the company influences the reduction of energy costs. FirstenLED has been very instrumental in adding a new device to those already classified in the list of LED fixtures. The LED fixtures have quite an improved energy efficiency rate and only serve to increase the options that a person has when choosing LED lighting in their home. The fixtures are characterized as having the ability to fit into any major light sockets and this increases their efficiency and affordability. LED downlight reduces the consumption of energy by a whooping 90% when compared with other devices in the same league of operation. Incandescent bulbs have been known to harness and assimilate a larger amount of energy but one can be sure that that will not be the case when they employ LED lighting.
The features are also very effective in the market and come in the common settings that will guarantee that the LED light bulbs will fit seamlessly into the existing lamp or lighting elements. These enhanced forms of LED specifications are playing a big part in enabling FirstenLED provides the ultimate and equitable lighting solutions for every league of clients. The products are a complete set of lighting devices and bulbs which are in line with the policy of minimizing energy costs. The LED's are currently the most affordable and high quality in the market and this makes them effective and efficient.
FirstenLED has been at the fore front in establishing the right enhancements to the residential and commercial premises which will make the places bright and colorful. The developments have been established to be environmentally friendly and conform to the set rules and regulations that govern energy release and usage. Their energy efficient products are at the top of the request list of the target market. The company offers the products that are needed for initiating independence in the way the energy is utilized. The sustainable products enable all the home owners and the business or property managers to study and control the energy consumption.
The products have been identified as ones that reduce the wastage of energy and give a person the ease of determining consumption methods. LED spotlight is one among the products that have been introduced to govern energy use with the same results that are required. The major and fundamental goal of the products is to actually provide a long lasting remedy to the current problems that people are experiencing in the field of energy utilization. Their professional personnel who are well aware of the workings of the LED equipment are always at hand to install the products and make them work with the effectiveness that will satisfy the clients.
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Place a handful or two of worms atop the newspaper bedding, along with a handful of dirt. Keep the bedding/material level down a few inches from the top of the container to avoid worms crawling out when you remove the lid. In fact, up to 50 of a worms diet may consist of its bedding. Finding worm bedding is easy, and so is adding it to your worm bin. You can make a worm bed to either raise worms as fishing bait or to raise worms to compost kitchen scraps. Worms thrive in a bed made out of shredded paper and are fed vegetable food scraps. Cut or tear newspaper into 1 (2.5 cm) strips for the worm bedding.
We also want to get some of the heat energy out so the worms aren’t cooked when they start the process, adds Chambers. To avoid fruit fly infestation, and worm escapees, take a few sheets of wet newspaper and lay them flat on top of your bedding. Composting worms need moist bedding in order to survive. I prefer to use shredded newspaper but any type of shredded paper will work. You will make your hands sore tearing it up. To use it as worm bin bedding, pull some half finished compost out of your pile, add some water, and add it to your worm composting bin. Make a worm bin for a great small-space composting setup that will yield free, nutrient-rich compost for your garden. Sprinkle castings on potted plants and over garden beds. Or in the opposite situation, they could come in for hot summers and stay out for mild winters. Use plain newspaper, not shiny inserts, which may contain harmful dyes, and not office paper, which has been bleached.
Do you wish you could dig money out of the ground? Raising worms in a worm bed can be a lucrative business. Fishing worms are easy to come by: Just check the. Secure the lid on the plastic container to keep birds out, and store the worm bed away from direct sunlight. Select foods that are suitable for worms including most fruits, vegetables, cereals and grains, and other organic items like cardboard and tea bags. Some people put their food scraps, including eggshells, into a blender and make a slurry. Newspaper or bedding helps keep the bin dark and moist and discourages fruit flies.
How To Build A Worm Farm
All about worm bedding-using shredded newspaper. Read how I used dry shredded newspaper to start a bin. It just keeps that extra beginning moisture out of the bin. It is built out of commonly available supplies and is so easy even a novice handyman (handyperson?) can do it. Prepare some nice bedding for the worms by shredding some newspaper into 1 inch strips. If you have a bit of space, you can make worm beds for vermicomposting right in your garden. While you can just build a regular raised bed out of wood for your worm bed, there are a couple of things to keep in mind. Shred a bunch of newspaper to use as bedding, moisten it, and layer it into the worm bed. For anyone interested in simply trying out vermicomposting (or if you want to save some money), I would recommend heading to your local hardware store and grabbing yourself a standard Rubbermaid tub (with lid) or something similar. Bedding materials will typically need to be moistened before worms are added. The bedding may consist of moistened shredded newspaper and leaves. You may also build one out of wood, or create a worm compost bin out of bricks in your garden. The function of bedding is to provide the worms a habitat, a place to live and breed. The best material I have found to make bedding is newspaper. You should only be able squeeze a drop or two of water out of completed bedding.
How To Build A Worm Bed To Start A Small Worm Farm Boys’ Life Magazine
Rather than try to harvest the worms out of it, I used it to seed a new bin. The browns make up the bedding in the worm bin, covering up the food scraps so that they don’t smell and keeping the bin damp and aerated, so we really can’t skimp there. Time to do a bit of research and figure out which waste materials can be used as bedding in a worm bin:. Newspaper is easier to shred and doesn’t clunk up as hard as white paper. Make a bin as shown on my bin page for them and give them a bunch of you rbin contents. Worms also need bedding like shredded newspaper ( inch strips). This is not an industrial process (I literally scoop right out of one of my bins to fill orders), so I cannot guarantee that you will receive a certain number of adults or cocoons in any order. I remember reading on here to use shredded newspaper. Check out a post by Walleye Express, he has been making his own bedding for a while and has a very good method. Why wait for a warm night make a worm rod, thats what i use and they come shooting right out of the ground as soon as you plug it in.
Check out the Get Started web page to learn how to build your own do-it-yourself bin. A readily available source of bedding is newspaper. You will need to shred the paper before putting it in your bin. Our newspaper is mostly color print, is it save to feed to the worms in large quantities? By that I mean, don’t make glossy colored paper the only bedding material in your worm bin. I contacted our local paper and found out that they use petroleum-based coloured ink. You can puree, freeze, or microwave food scraps before adding them to your worm composter to help break down material. Make sure that food has returned to room temperature before adding it to your worm bin. The worms and bedding should be contained in a small box or bin, approximately one foot high, 2 feet deep and 3 feet wide, so you’ll need that much space. Commonly available sources of suitable bedding for your worm bin are shredded newspaper, cardboard, or computer printout paper. These make excellent fish bait and are often preferred by those who want a small number of worms for their own use. Numerous investigators have pointed out the beneficial effects of earthworms. To create bedding, soak a large quantity of shredded newspapers or cardboard. Worms like an environment that is 75 water. Make sure worms are away from high traffic areas. They don’t like to be disturbed by loud noise or abrupt movements or vibrations. | <urn:uuid:c75d8c28-7873-4163-ae67-dd1470dfb9fc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://saveberlin.com/how-to-make-worm-bedding-out-of-newspaper-diy-project-download/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00287-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945436 | 1,366 | 2.796875 | 3 |
For many investors, the biggest obstacle to investing in stocks is fear of the unknown.
What if the market crashes? What if the company's earnings miss expectations? What if the economy implodes?
But one aspect of investing is actually quite predictable: dividends.
If you own a solid dividend-paying company, regardless of what happens to the share price you can be virtually certain you'll get paid a chunk of cash every quarter (or every month in some cases). Watching that money roll in makes it easier to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of the market.
But it gets better. Some companies are so predictable that it's possible to know, not only when the next payment will arrive, but when the company will raise its dividend.
For me, a dividend that grows steadily – along with the company's revenue and earnings – is the hallmark of a great investment.
With that in mind, I put together a list of six companies that, based on historical patterns, will almost certainly raise their dividends in the next four months. They'd better, because I own all of these stocks personally (and all but Brookfield Infrastructure and Wal-Mart are in my Strategy Lab model dividend portfolio).
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN-TSX)
Yield: 4.3 per cent
Brookfield owns a global portfolio of long-life infrastructure assets – utilities, toll roads, pipelines, railways and ports – whose growing cash flows have supported double-digit distribution increases in recent years. Brookfield, which typically raises its distribution in February, said in its third-quarter results that its payout ratio of 59 per cent is "conservative versus its long-term target range of 60 to 70 per cent" – a strong hint that another increase is coming. Keep in mind that, as a limited partnership, Brookfield's distributions are taxed differently than dividends.
Coca-Cola Co. (KO-NYSE)
Yield: 2.8 per cent
Last February, Coca-Cola increased its dividend by 10 per cent – marking the soft drink giant's 51st consecutive year of increases. That's longer than I've been alive (not much longer, mind you). Coke is a company that knows how to share the wealth: It returned $9.1-billion to shareholders in 2012, comprising $4.6-billion (U.S.) in dividends and $4.5-billion in share buybacks. And there's more where that came from: The company is expected to hike its dividend by about 7 per cent in February, according to Bloomberg.
Enbridge Inc. (ENB-TSX)
Yield: 2.8 per cent
Few companies are as specific about their dividend growth plans as Enbridge. In October, the pipeline giant said it expects to increase its dividend by 10 to 12 per cent annually from 2013 to 2017 – in line with growth in earnings per share. With about $26-billion of commercially secured capital projects – and another $10-billion in unsecured investments – there's no shortage of growth ahead. Enbridge usually announces a dividend hike in early December, and Bloomberg estimates the coming increase will be about 10 per cent.
Fortis Inc. (FTS-TSX)
Yield: 3.9 per cent
Fortis is Canada's largest investor-owned utility, with about 2.4 million gas and electricity customers. Regulated operations account for 90 per cent of its assets, providing stable returns, with non-utilities – including real estate and hydro generation – making up the rest. Fortis typically raises its dividend in early December, and while the recent increases have been small – averaging about 3 per cent annually over the past three years – some analysts predict growth will accelerate thanks to $6-billion in new capital investments.
Canadian Utilities Ltd. (CU-TSX)
Yield: 2.6 per cent
Don't let Canadian Utilities' modest yield fool you: The company has been a dividend growth machine, raising its payment at an annual rate of about 8 per cent over the past five years. And it's expected to boost the dividend by a similar amount in January. Regulated utilities account for the bulk of earnings, which are poised to grow on the strength of a capital spending plan that includes $6-billion in electricity transmission investments in Alberta. I wouldn't be shocked – get it? – to see the dividend grow for years to come.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT-NYSE)
Yield: 2.4 per cent
Wal-Mart is another company that, despite having a modest yield, has delivered solid returns for shareholders. Over the past 10 years – even as people wondered if the world's biggest retailer was running out of room to grow – its dividend rose more than fivefold. That included an increase of 18 per cent last year – one of the biggest in the company's history. Look for another increase in February, right around the time you're paying off those holiday shopping bills.
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Walmart, the world's largest private employer, is facing what looks to be a growing wave of strikes. What's most interesting here is that Walmart is—quite famously—not a unionized company. The current state of American labor law makes unionizing worksites at a company like Walmart extraordinarily difficult, and the political outlook for major revision to the relevant laws is extremely poor. So the question of whether it's possible for workers to effectively organize themselves and engage in industrial action outside the context of the formal legal framework that governs collective bargaining in the United States is a very important one. Legislative change has often been seen as the key to a revival of labor activism in the United States, but obviously unions didn't become influential in the first place because of a friendly political climate—like any new social movement they became powerful despite the hostile political climate and then thanks to their growing power were temporarily able to create a friendly climate.
Walmart's in a fairly low-margin industry but with net income before tax of a bit over $10,000 per employee there really is substantial economic surplus that workers could, in theory, capture.
Bryce Covert in The Nation emphasizes that this is important because there's been so much employment growth in the low-wage retail sector. I think I'd read the causality the other way around—one reason there's been so much employment growth at places like Walmart is because they've found a way to hire adequate workers for very low wages. If they end up needing to pay more, the business model will shift. I shop regularly at two different supermarkets, one unionized and one nonunion. I don't think it's a coincidence that the nonunion supermarket has more employees and the unionized one has more frequently-malfunctioning self-checkout machines. To the extent that wages in the retail sector start to rise across the board, you'll see more emphasis on perfecting and installing that kind of technology. Amazon is investing in warehouse robots for a reason and there are some broader economic trends away from big box retail and toward Internet-based commerce that might let you get buy with fewer, higher-paid workers.
Which I think would be progress. I was struck the last time I was in France by the fact that the McDonalds' outlets in crowded parts of Paris (I wanted a soda with lots of ice in it, sue me) seem more technologically sophisticated than their US peers. Our fast food sector lags in this regard presumably because it's easier here to substitute cheap labor for advanced technology. | <urn:uuid:bb4041f4-50d0-466f-99b2-40cb697980a3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/11/the_spreading_wave_of_wal_mart_strikes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00310-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972827 | 514 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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How many hours do you work in a week?
Official employer designations regarding full-time employment generally range from 35 to 45 hours, with 40 hours being by far the most common standard. Some companies consider 50 hours a week full-time for exempt employees.
How many hours is a 5 day week?
Later, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which established a five-day, 40-hour workweek for many workers.
How many hours do you work if you work 50 hours a week?
A 50-hour workweek represents a workweek that exceeds the usual 40-hour schedule for professionals across industries. This means that instead of committing eight hours each day for five days, professionals may work 10 hours each day for five days, or work an additional sixth day to meet their 50-hour requirements.
Related Question how many hours in a wek
Is 60 hours a week a lot?
Working 60 hours a week to complete assignments means you'll likely be more productive. However, the quantity of work that you produce isn't the only important measure. You may be able to improve your work's quality as well by sticking to an unusual schedule.
Is a 7 day work week legal?
California law provides that employees are entitled to one day's rest in seven and that no employer shall “cause” an employee to work more than six days in seven. Employees who do not work more than 30 hours per week, or who do not work more than six hours in “any” day of the week, are exempt from these requirements.
Who invented day?
Grade 6 • India. Although day and night are a part of the Earth's rotation around the Sun. This concept of day and night was discovered by the ancient Mesoptamians. We have retained from the Babylonians not only hours and minutes divided into 60, but also their division of a circle into 360 parts or degrees.
How long is 30 hours a week?
In fact, a 30-hour workweek, generally consisting of four full workdays (seven and a half hours) a week, or five six-hour days, offers numerous potential advantages.
Why do we work 4 days a week?
A four-day schedule can make it easier for caregivers, including working parents, to juggle their responsibilities. And the extra day off means fewer commuting days, which saves time and reduces environmental impact.
What is an 80 hour work week?
An 80 hour workweek would mean 16 hours of work a day, or a full 8 am to midnight shift, if spread out from Monday to Friday.
Is overtime over 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week?
In California, overtime is officially counted both after 8 hours of work per day, AND 40 hours per week - according to the California Labor Code Section 510, i.e. The Cunningham Law. So, if you work 9 hours on Tuesday, you are entitled to get paid for 1 hour of overtime.
How many hours did Elon Musk work?
Musk works regularly for 80-100 hours a week with a special focus on design and engineering work. Musk's work schedule gives him 42 hours per week at Tesla and 40 hours at SpaceX. Musk usually prefers a working lunch which is followed by a walk around the factory.
Can I work 16 hours a day?
The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 dictates policy for most workers. According to an interpretation of the FLSA by the U.S. Department of Labor's the act does not limit the number of hours in a day or days in a week an employee must work, including overtime hours, if the employee is at least 16 years old. | <urn:uuid:693cb476-725b-4cfa-a5de-f62466af8761> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sarahjocrawford.com/how-many-hours-in-a-wek/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.958912 | 762 | 2.640625 | 3 |
It’s sepsis awareness month, and HCA President Al Cardillo talked this week with Dr. Benita Zahn for her “Health Beat” program on WNYT NewsChannel 13 about the signs and symptoms of a lethal condition, sepsis, which claims more than 258,000 lives annually. Watch the clip here.
Sepsis is a condition where early diagnosis and treatment are vital. Mortality from sepsis increases 8% every hour that treatment is delayed.
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We are a community of military veterans, service members, artists, allies, and healers dedicated to creativity and wellness. We use writing, painting, photography, and a host of other mediums to reflect on our experiences and express them creatively. Warrior Writers is a national non-profit organization, based in Philadelphia, with members and activities across the country.
Warrior Writers is a veteran-focused arts organization that fosters artistic exploration and expression through casual, welcoming workshops and retreats. By reflecting and creating in a comfortable space, we encourage and support healing and community building. Art making becomes the creative tool through which we understand and transcend experiences of trauma and emotional disruptions that are not easily identified but constantly felt.
Creative works are shared with the public in the form of books, performances and exhibitions, empowering veterans to share experiences openly and artistically, and providing opportunities for the broader public to understand veterans’ experiences. Through Warrior Writers, veterans have created a network of support and reprieve where artistic growth is developed and lasting friendships are built. Using art as language, we help bridge the gap between veterans and civilians.
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I offer classes and courses in Mindfulness and Yoga, which can be tailored to your School’s specific needs. These tools provide a practical way to improve physical and mental health, as well as the resilience of both young people and staff.
There is growing evidence for the efficacy of mindfulness interventions in schools, as well as Yoga for teens, and the training delivered is rooted in this.
I believe it is important to help nurture young people
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To St. John de Crèvecoeur
Paris Aug. 26. 1786.
I have duly received the honour of your letter of the 20th. inst. Mr. Barclay has been long gone to Marocco, with which power he was by his last letter about signing a treaty of peace. This must apologize for your not having heard from him. If you will inform me to whom (in Paris) the 55 –16s can be paid I will order it to be paid.—I have letters and papers from America to July 16. They inform us of the deaths of Generals Greene, McDougal and Williamson, also that Genl. Sullivan is President of N. Hampshire. S. Adams is no longer president of the Senate of Massachusets. I cannot conceive the reason of this. The Creeks have made a formidable invasion of Georgia. Some scattered Indians have done mischeif at Kentucke; they are however disavowed by their tribes. The Commercial Convention is likely to take effect and will prepare an article for giving Congress a power over our Commerce. John Collins is Governor of Rhode island, Huntingdon of Connecticut. N. Hampshire and Massachusets have suspended their navigation acts. This being every thing material of our American news, and your other friends here in a better situation to give you what relates to this country, I shall only add assurances of the esteem with which I have the honor to be Dear Sir your most obedient & most humble servt.,
RC (Louis St. John de Crèvecoeur, Montesquieu-sur-Losse, France, 1947). PrC (DLC); endorsed.
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Organization & Representation in the Informal Economy
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WIEGO's Core Programmes For each of its programme areas, WIEGO commissions issues papers to identify programme, research and policy priorities. It then convenes workshops of grassroots, research and policy actors. Collaborating institutions and individuals undertake component activities.
WIEGO works with grassroots organizations and international networks of informal workers, such as HomeNet South and South East Asia and StreetNet International to strengthen organizing capacity and and to increase the visibility and voice of women in the informal economy. WIEGO also works with international trade union organizations and tries to put informal sector workers on the agenda of governments and international organizations.
The WIEGO Statistics Programme seeks to develop statistics on the informal economy as an essential component of mainstream or official statistics at national, regional and international levels. The Programme contributes to improving classifications, concepts and methods for data collection and for estimating the contribution of informal employment to national economies It also encourages countries to collect and improve data on these topics.
Another aim of the programme is to prepare statistical data and analysis on the size, composition and contribution of the informal economy and the characteristics and situation of those who work in it available to policymakers, researchers and advocates in easily accessible formats. It also promotes data-based research on informal sector, informal employment and related topics.
WIEGO launched the Programme on Law and Informal Employment in October 2015. The programme aims to analyze and improve legal and regulatory frameworks for informal workers; and to empower workers’ organizations to fight for their recognition and rights as workers, on a local and international level. The programme builds on the work achieved by the Law and the Informal Economy Project.
Few informal workers - whether waged or self-employed - have access to social benefits such as health insurance, materity benefits, disability compensation, and retirement promotion. WIEGO's Social Protection Programme promotes innovative approaches to extend social protection to women working in the informal economy.
WIEGO's Urban Policies Programme seeks to understand, highlight, and address how different functional areas of urban planning, policies, and regulations affect different categories of urban informal workers. Additionally, the Programme works to correct the public policy bias against street vendors and establish their right to vend. The programme also works to improve services for street vendors and helps them to organize themselves and present their concerns to city planners.
The Global Trade Programme of WIEGO aims to investigate, highlight, and address the impacts - both positive and negative - of global trade and investment policies on the livelihoods of the working poor in the informal economy. More specifically, the Programme focuses on comparative studies in different countries of informal workers in selected global value chains.
In addition to the five programme areas, WIEGO also works on activities more generally related to the informal economy which are detailed in the special initiatives section. These activities also include cross-programmatic collaborations. | <urn:uuid:22ef0046-5980-409a-a39d-010cf200023f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wiego.org/wiego/core-programmes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906003 | 612 | 1.75 | 2 |
Disinformation online: potential legal and regulatory ramifications to the right to free elections – policy position paper
Chapter from the book: Loizides, F et al. 2020. Human Computer Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Adjunct Proceedings from the INTERACT 2019 Workshops.
This paper provides an overview on the implications of digital information disorder to exercise the right to free elections. It suggests a need for public scrutiny and calls for action on the revision of rules on political advertising, on enhanced accountability of internet intermediaries, on strengthening quality journalism and empowerment of voters towards a critical evaluation of electoral communication. Furthermore, it considers the potential role and involvement of national regulators and of the judiciary in law enforcement and regulation. | <urn:uuid:c29d5cc2-f52d-42b6-857a-963ee965905b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cardiffuniversitypress.org/site/chapters/e/10.18573/book3.g/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.874537 | 142 | 1.875 | 2 |
NORRISTOWN — A mandatory water conservation notice remains in effect for approximately 31,000 Pennsylvania American Water customers in the Norristown area, specifically in East Norriton, West Norriton, Lower Providence, Whitpain, Worcester and Whitemarsh townships.
PAW spokesman Terry Manzea says the reason for the boil water advisory, and why it remains in effect in some areas but not others, is because water tanks in outlying areas were depleted due to the overall drop in capacity. When these tanks and distribution systems run low, there is a risk of elevated levels of bacteria that could compromise the quality of the water.
“The good news is that pressure is almost back to normal,” Maenza said.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection guidelines mandate that after an event such as this, systemwide water samples must be taken to test for bacteria. Two consecutive days of “clean” test results are necessary before the advisory can be lifted.
The first samples are to be taken today. If they show acceptable results, normal water usage could resume Friday.
The problem surfaced Tuesday when water quality inspectors at PAW’s Norristown plant determined that heavy rainfall totals throughout the month had churned up sediment in the source water of the Schuylkill River near the Norristown water treatment plant. causing dramatically lowered capacity, and an effective water shortage.
“Normally the plant processes about 10.5 million gallons of water a day,” said Maenza. “Yesterday, we were at about half that. The water was taking longer to process and (the plant) couldn’t keep up with demand.”
PAW is asking customers to limit water usage to bathing, sanitation and personal hygiene until the problem is resolved. Water pressure may be low and the water may be discolored. Customers are advised not to use water for laundry, dishwashing, lawns, gardens or car washing while the conservation notice remains in effect.
The Montgomery County Department of Public Safety recommends that those affected use boiled or bottled water for drinking, ice cubes, brushing teeth, cleaning dishes and food preparation.
According to an alert issued Tuesday by PAW, water tankers are stationed at the East Norriton Fire Company on Swede Road, the East Norriton Fire Station at Germantown Pike and Whitehall Road, the Lower Providence Fire Company at Ridge Pike and East Mount Kirk Avenue, the Jefferson Fire Company at School Lane and Egypt Road and in Worcester Township on Reiner Road off Spring Hill Road. Residents are asked to bring their own containers.
PAW has been coordinating contingency plans for emergency water use with area fire departments, Montgomery County 911 and all municipalities affected.
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As part of our #AtHome with the British Council programme, we are organising a series of Higher Education dialogues which will help you connect with colleagues from around the world and share your experience.
The theme of this week discussion was ‘How do universities ensure quality teaching online?’
Moving teaching online is more than just a switch to Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Together with the change of delivery platform, universities have to consider the pedagogy, methods, tools and models of online teaching in order to maximise the effect of the virtual learning environment.
How can universities ensure the quality to achieve satisfactory results for students and academic staff in regard to a new model of teaching?
Watch recording from this interactive session and find out more from the experience of universities and quality assurance agencies.
About the speakers
Moderator Aysen Güven - Director Education in Turkey, British Council. Aysen has been working intensively on improving the quality of English Provision in the higher education sector in Turkey at the national and institutional level with both Turkish and UK partners.
Douglas Blackstock - Chief Executive, QAA. His work includes leading QAA’s contribution to the current changes to the policy, regulatory and quality landscape in England and across the UK, and the Agency’s role in developing the Teaching Excellence Framework alongside other sector partners.
Prof. Diana Laurillard - Professor, UCL Institute of Education. Her works include leading externally funded research projects, developing learning design support and developing software interventions.
Prof. Muzaffer Elmas - the first President of the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council. Under his leadership, the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council became a full member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies Prof.
Irma Grdzelidze - Head of Quality Assurance Office, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Her field of expertise is IQM (Internal Quality Management) in higher education. In 2014-2019, she was an Expert of Accreditation and Authorization at National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement. Irma has been Higher Education Reform Expert for Erasmus Plus since 2015.
Once a week, every week, Higher Education professionals will be brought together to exchange knowledge and ideas on different topics. Come back and tune in to find out more. This series is free of charge. | <urn:uuid:a9f1bc84-9baa-4757-ac30-1a9ab16fb2c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kazakhstan.britishcouncil.org/events/at-home-higher-education-dialogue-quality-teaching | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.933584 | 488 | 1.578125 | 2 |
I was fascinated and a little baffled by the male contestant on Britain's Got Talent on Saturday with the striking, high pitched voice.
He said he was technically a counter tenor, but sang male soprano, as was popular in baroque music and earlier.
Now, I've had a bit of experience of counter tenor and alto singing. I sung alto for several years at school, and later sang in several choirs that featured male altos/counter tenors. The tone when singing like this is totally different from that of a woman in the same register. It works well on its own, but usually doesn't mix well with contraltos. Yet when you listen to Greg Pritchard sing without watching him, although there is a touch of falsetto strain, you could still suspect it was a woman singing.
What he didn't point out was that those male sopranos in early music days were not counter tenors (or even bargain-counter tenors, as featured in the works of PDQ Bach), they were castrati. (Anyone who has not come across Kingsley Amis's cracking alternate world book The Alteration should read this fascinating piece which envisages a modern world where the church still produces castrati.) Now our performer on Britain's Got Talent clearly wasn't a castrato - his speaking voice was quite normal - making his singing all the more remarkable.
I find myself in exactly the same position as Simon Cowell. I really don't know what to make of it. If you haven't heard him, decide for yourself. | <urn:uuid:0a89ecad-8efc-47f1-9cd8-56ea58c683d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://brianclegg.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-singing-but-not-as-we-know-it.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00486-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987636 | 329 | 2.015625 | 2 |
By Marcus Williams
Of all the fat that can accumulate on your body, which is the most dangerous?
Belly fat. Excess accumulation of belly fat is more dangerous than excess fat around your hips and thighs.
Belly fat is associated with serious health problems, such as heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.
Your genes can contribute to your being overweight and help determine where you carry this extra fat, but poor lifestyle choices are likely to worsen the issue.
What Health Risks Are Linked To Belly Fat?
Belly fat appears to be especially bad for the heart. Studies have linked belly fat to heart failure, atherosclerosis, and other cardiovascular problems. It also has been associated with osteoporosis, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, colorectal cancer, metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure, and other health problems.
Watch Those Calories!
Eating high-fat foods is not helpful, but excess calories of any kind can increase your waistline and contribute to belly fat. Still, there is no single cause of belly fat. Genetics, diet, age, and lifestyle can all play a role. Changing dietary habits can help you fight the battle of the bulge and fight belly fat: Read labels, reduce saturated fats, increase the amount of fruits and veggies you eat, and control and reduce your portions.
Excess calories — whether from alcohol, sweetened beverages, or oversized portions of food — can increase belly fat. Our bodies need calories, yet gram for gram, alcohol has almost as many calories as fat.
Alcohol does seem to have a particular association with an increased waistline, though. In general, that’s because when you drink alcohol, your liver is too busy burning off alcohol to burn off fat, leaving you with a beer belly. Studies show that alcohol can cause you to feel hungry by affecting hormones that regulate a sense of satiety.
Why Are Trans Fats So Bad?
Which of the following fats not only can make you gain weight, but also can move fat from other parts of your body to your belly? Trans fats. Researchers at Wake Forest University found that trans fats, which are created by partially hydrogenated oil, increase the amount of fat around the belly and redistribute fat tissue to the abdomen from other parts of the body. Trans fats may be found in such foods as margarine, pastries, cookies and crackers, and fried and convenience foods.
The Foods That Fight Belly Fat
Which foods do studies show may help fight belly fat? Green tea, in combination with exercise, could help you lose weight, according to the Journal of Nutrition. Researchers think substances in green tea known as catechins stimulate the body to burn calories and enhance loss of belly fat. Blueberries also show promise, albeit in rodents. In one study, rats bred to become obese were fed either a high-fat diet or a low-fat diet rich in blueberries. Rats fed a blueberry-rich diet had less abdominal fat.
What’s The Real Problem With Fast Food?
Any fast food options are typically high-fat, calorie-dense foods that are eaten in large portions — all of which contribute to over-consumption of calories, weight gain, and an increase in belly fat when eaten frequently. Many fast food restaurants don’t provide nutritional information, but studies have shown that when this is available, people tend to pick lower-calorie meals.
Why Are Researchers Against Diet Soda?
According to the American Heart Association, “soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the No. 1 source of added sugars in the American diet.” Added sugars mean added calories – something you want to avoid to help with weight loss and cut down on belly fat. Yet, high-fructose corn syrup has gradually replaced refined sugar as the main sweetener in soft drinks and has been blamed as a potential contributor to the obesity epidemic.
Does switching to diet sodas help? Although some research has suggested that people who drink artificially sweetened sodas as part of a calorie-restricted diet do lose weight, other studies have suggested that diet soft drinks could even lead to weight gain. For now, there’s no conclusive evidence either way.
What’s So Great About Fiber?
To trim your waistline, add whole grains to your diet. For example, choose brown or wild rice instead of white rice. Refined and other highly processed foods can contribute to weight gain and interfere with weight loss. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that a calorie-controlled diet rich in whole grains can trim extra fat from the waistline of obese subjects.
What’s So Great About Whole Grains?
Couscous, spaghetti, and corn flakes are made from refined grains (though whole grain options may be available). But popcorn is a whole grain food that can boost fiber. The best way to prepare popcorn is with an air-popper, which requires no oil for cooking. Read labels to see what oils have been added to microwave popcorn.
All else being equal, though, whole grains are better than refined grains because they tend to be high in fiber and take longer to digest. This satisfies your hunger better and helps lower blood glucose levels and reduce fat.
Why Do Men Store More Belly Fat Than Women?
Overall, men tend to store fat in the abdominal area more than women do, thanks to sex hormone differences. Before age 40, women tend to store most of their fat in the hips, thighs, and buttocks. After 40, as estrogen levels drop, body fat is redistributed to the abdomen.
Is Belly Fat Really Harder To Lose Than Other Types Of Fat?
When you lose weight, you’re much more likely to lose it in your midsection. Losing weight on a well-balanced plan will melt body fat, including belly fat. The best way to decrease your waist size is through healthy eating and regular exercise.
Why Can’t I Just Do Some Crunches To Lose Weight?
Doing sit-ups, crunches, or other abdominal exercises will strengthen your core muscles and help you lose fat, but they don’t specifically work on belly fat. In other words, spot exercise won’t decrease belly fat. The only way to lose belly fat (or any kind of fat) is through dieting and exercise. Aerobic exercises, such as running, swimming, cycling, and tennis, are some of the best to help reduce body fat.
What’s The Best Belly Fat-Blasting Plan?
Most scientific evidence suggests that a calorie-controlled diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, beans, nuts, seeds, lean meat, fish, eggs, and poultry is the foundation for a diet that provides all the nutrients you need while helping to whittle your waistline. Weight loss experts recommend combining this diet with 30 to 60 minutes of exercise most days of the week. | <urn:uuid:31348ef6-f9d1-4800-8e2a-efb6cd009453> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://communityjournal.net/tag/health-risks-linked-to-belly-fat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92979 | 1,445 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Studies have shown that the time period in which thrombolytic therapy is effective after myocardial infarction (MI) is short. After 12 hours, it's no longer effective and may even be harmful. However, in the wake of recent studies suggesting that some myocardial tissue may be viable even after such a long postinfarct period, researchers in Germany investigated whether mechanical reperfusion is a good alternative to the conservative treatment currently recommended, and the results are promising.
Researchers enrolled 365 patients in the study, all of whom arrived between 12 and 48 hours after the first signs of a heart attack (and all of whom had documented ST-segment elevation MI); all were given standard anticoagulative and antiplatelet therapy. They were randomized to receive either conservative treatment (IV infusion of unfractionated heparin or subcutaneous low-molecular-weight heparin for at least a day; n = 183) or invasive treatment (n = 182), most often (87%) stent placement with adjunctive antiplatelet therapy with abciximab. (Other procedures performed were balloon angioplasty [7%] and aortocoronary bypass graft surgery [4%]; three patients received no intervention).
The primary outcome was final infarct size, as determined by computed tomographic scanning. Secondary outcomes were death from all causes, recurrent MI, and stroke within 30 days.
The mean final left ventricular infarct size in the invasive-treatment group was 11.6%, significantly smaller than the 18.4% seen in the conservative-treatment group. Results were also better in patients who underwent invasive treatment when various subgroups were compared, including patients presenting with a first infarction, those presenting 12 to 24 hours after first symptoms, those presenting 24 to 48 hours after first symptoms, and so on.
At the 30-day follow-up, three patients in the invasive-treatment group had died, compared with seven in the conservative-treatment group. Five in the invasive-treatment group had a second MI, compared with eight in the conservative-treatment group. Only one patient (in the conservative-treatment group) suffered a stroke. There were more episodes of major bleeding in the invasive-treatment group than in the control group (six versus two, respectively), as well as episodes of serious thrombocytopenia (two versus none, respectively). Results were comparable at 90 days, as well. The authors say their findings show that any viable myocardium present 12 hours or longer after an MI "may be salvaged if an effective reperfusion strategy is applied."-Doug Brandt
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Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy. He trained as both an actor and a teacher. Here his experiences at the chalk face are combined with his skills as an actor in an explosive critique of the current state of education and government policies over the years combined with insights concerning everyday life in the classroom.
A performance packed with punches and passion
It’s not just a rant, though he has a go at a host of issues. He also has some alarming statistics about how teachers see their work and how they are treated along with the business of recruiting and retaining them. These interludes come from Dr. Emma Kell’s book How to Survive in Teaching Without Imploding, Exploding or Walking Away. He brandishes the book around and quotes from it with all the fiery zeal of a missionary preaching with texts from the Bible. The physicality he brings to the performance matches well with the words in the title. He knows of the tensions and pressures that cause teachers to have mental health issues and to take time off work because they can no longer face the daily struggle and lack of support. He’s heard their cries of fury as one regulation or demand after another inhibits them from opening up the joys of learning and the creative energy of students as more hurdles and obstacles are put their way and the very reason they wanted to become teachers is buried in piles of paperwork, tedious tests and meaningless meetings. On three occasions he turns to the increasingly better-informed audience for a vote on whether he should stay in the job or walk away. It’s fascinating to see how results shift as the show progresses. One judgment says, "Remain: kids need teachers like you", while another advises, "Leave, for the sake of your own sanity."
Director Helen Tennison has harnessed the required energy modulations inherent in the script to create a production which reflects the highs and lows of teaching itself. Hence there are calmer moments when he reflects on the joys of education. His tale of the dragon probably resonates with many who can remember a special story they were told by an inspirational teacher many years ago or a project that gave them a sense of wonder and desire to know more about the world.
Every aspect of this show will resonate with teachers: it’s packed with the moments, situations and exposition that are part of their everyday lives and for many it might well prove to be a cathartic experience hearing someone proclaim what they have felt for years. Many in other public service professions will also identify with what they see and hear. For a few it might all be a revelation, but for everyone, Teachers should be recognised as a performance packed with punches and passion. | <urn:uuid:42c3c995-a24b-4db1-ad41-ea9bda04ece3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/teach/740263 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.974209 | 561 | 1.75 | 2 |
It was a moment of pride for all of Colorado.
Wineland, a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, shared the prize with Serge Haroche, of France.
The two scientists invented ways of observing tiny particles of matter and light without destroying them, a feat that had not been achieved previously. These advances in quantum physics have allowed more precise atomic clocks to be built and could lead to the construction of super-fast quantum computers.
Such achievements are the product of hard work and vision. Congratulations are in order. | <urn:uuid:b636583e-33bf-4b56-9a4f-852a077588d8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/tag/nobel-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00074-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946816 | 110 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Performance and physiological variables in broiler chicken lines differing in susceptibility to the ascites syndrome: 1. Changes in blood gases as a function of ambient temperature
1. Male broilers of 5 genetic stocks (A, B, C, D, E) selected in different ways for fast growth and low food conversion ratio (FCR) and differing in ascites sensitivity were subjected to 2 different ambient temperature step down regimens: high temperature (HT: 33 to 20degreeC over 33 d) and low temperature (LT: 30 to 15degreeC over 17 d). 2. Ascites incidence was recorded daily. Food intake and body weight gain were measured weekly and FCR was calculated. Heat production (Hp) was calculated using the comparative slaughter method. At 28 d venous samples were taken for blood gas analysis and haematocrit and relative heart, lung and liver weights were recorded. 3. Populations A and C showed the highest growth rates combined with a low FCR and a higher ascites incidence. A low FCR in these stocks was attributable to low values for Hp. These stocks also had low pO2 and high pCO2 in venous blood at low ambient temperature compared with other stocks. Stock B, which exhibited the slowest growth rate and the highest FCR, was not susceptible to ascites and showed higher Hp and pO2 and pCO2 at low ambient temperature. Populations D and E were intermediate for almost all variables. Heart and lung weights were both increased at LT , while liver weight did not differ between temperature regimes. 4. Our results show that a high haematocrit is not necessarily linked with an increased susceptibility to ascites. | <urn:uuid:a06c563a-2454-4272-836e-66f4fa12b3ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/cbps/1999/00000040/00000001/art00022 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718426.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00137-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968514 | 345 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Neoteryx LLC today announced research recently published in the official peer-reviewed scientific journal of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. The research found that analysis of samples extracted from the company's VAMS™ technology showed almost perfect agreement with results obtained from venous blood samples for HbA1c levels on a Tosoh G8 analyzer. The investigator-initiated clinical research study took place from June 2017 to January 2018 at Ghent University Hospital in Belgium. The study included 100 patients and was approved by the school's Ethics Committee.
"VAMS technology allows convenient at-home monitoring and is minimally invasive. It also offers efficiencies in the clinical setting, as providers will have blood results in hand before meeting with the patient," said Dr. Christophe Stove, one of the study's authors and director of the Laboratory of Toxicology at Ghent University. "Monitoring Type 1 diabetes in children is challenging for families. We're constantly evaluating solutions to make the monitoring process more efficient. This study substantiates that wet-absorptive microsampling using Neoteryx's VAMS technology provides clinically-viable results while simplifying patients' lives, streamlining provider visits and easing the challenges of managing this disease."
The objective of this study was to evaluate whether adjustments to the sample protocol would allow combining the simplicity of VAMS-based home sampling with clinically-acceptable results. In a paper originally published in 2017 on HbA1c analysis with the dried blood microsamples using VAMS, the researchers found the results deviated from the venous blood samples. The transition to wet-absorptive microsamples made the difference with a fixed volume of approximately 10 µL of blood using the absorbent tip of Neoteryx's VAMS device.
"We are pleased with the results of Dr. Stove's research and how the wet-absorptive tip yielded clinically-acceptable results with high patient satisfaction. This research underscores the importance of microsampling," said Neoteryx Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Stuart Kushon. "The goal of Neoteryx is to allow for convenient blood collection at any time by anyone in any location. If we can do that for children managing their diabetes and make things easier for them, we are achieving that goal." | <urn:uuid:d2f39b95-bc7d-4766-b08d-eab4830037ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180719/Study-evaluates-Neoteryxs-VAMS-technology-for-monitoring-HbA1c-levels-of-diabetic-children.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.941082 | 475 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Welcome to the Evergreen Teaching Gardens: public spaces created to support sustainability initiatives in the South Puget Sound region. Since 1995, The Evergreen State College has been creating teaching gardens to foster environmental and cultural education. Through these gardens we have committed to:
- use no pesticides or chemical fertilizers
- use non-invasive species with an emphasis on natives
- reduce lawns and existing invasive plantings
- use post-consumer recycled materials when possible
- foster cross-cultural understanding especially with regard to First Peoples
Students at The Evergreen State College designed and installed many of the gardens. Interpretive panels and plant identification labels help support your learning in these public spaces. This site provides resources for your visit.
We invite you to explore the Teaching Gardens and learn about native garden plants, lawn reduction, socially and environmentally sustainable garden design, wildlife habitat creation, xeriscaping, edible landscaping, organic gardening, and more. | <urn:uuid:cebd94cb-9eca-4eb4-bdd3-2cfc2c2a66d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.evergreen.edu/teachinggardens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00576-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88915 | 191 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Plain Language #9: Maintenance And Improvements Defined
Welcome back to another edition of NAI G2 Commercial’s ongoing series on commercial real estate (CRE) terms and definitions. In this blog post, we will be exploring two typical clauses or provisions for the maintenance or improvement of spaces – who pays, and what falls under which category.
If you haven’t already, check out the earlier blogs in the series. Follow the links to read the first, second, and third such blog posts, or find the entire series within the news and insights section.
Common Area Maintenance
Sometimes you will see a clause in a lease agreement regarding common area maintenance (CAM) for commercial businesses. This is typically an extra percentage or fixed amount added to rental owing and charged to a tenant in order to allow for the upkeep of shared spaces (beyond leased or usable area) and is most common in buildings like shopping centers and office blocks.
In a building with multiple tenants, this is a joint expense often divided pro-rata. Typical uses of this include maintaining the bathrooms, parking lots, the lighting and other fixtures in a lobby, or landscaping the gardens, even covering snow removal of walkways. It can also include security and certain insurance policies or applicable permits, as well as an administration fee for maintenance services.
If this clause is in effect, the landlord or their agent ought to account for such expenses when necessary, and the provision of receipts or to allow for auditing of those expenses may be negotiated into the contract by occupants.
A tenant improvement (TI) allowance is typically an incentive for new tenants taking up the occupation of a space. Other terms that function as synonyms include “TA, TIA, fit-out, or build-out allowance”. Landlords or their agents will offer a specific amount (in credit or funds) to cover some of the costs of making required or requested improvements that an occupier wants and needs.
Often, a TI will be worked out as a dollar amount per square foot or meter basis and will vary based on the state of the building as well as the strength of that particular market. This and variations thereof (such as rental discounts or full shopfitting) are most commonly decided between parties prior to occupation.
Again, allowing for whatever your specific agreement is, a TI is normally spent on “hard fittings” like ceilings, floors, plumbing, electrical, doors, and conference room build-outs, rather than ‘soft’ fittings like furniture or window coverings. | <urn:uuid:6a389474-c38f-49e4-a396-7432011a0c46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.g2cre.com/plain-language-9-maintenance-and-improvements-defined/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.945917 | 528 | 1.679688 | 2 |
As rumors keep swirling about the finger print scanner Apple will be introducing with the iPhone 5s, the subjects of mobile security and identity keep getting raised. Passwords are an absolute pain in the ass on mobile, and identity is a problem that not only hasn't been solved, but that some companies either lack interest in solving, or lack the trust necessary for us to want them to solve. Industry analyst Ben Bajarin - listen to him on the latest Vector podcast - think that leaves the door wide open for Apple. From Tech.pinions:
Security as a service could become a key differentiator for Apple products and a driving reason to choose Apple products over others. But even more interestingly, their competition (Google) doesn't care about security. It is a battle field their core perceived competitor has no interest in playing on. And that makes it all the more important.
It's important to distinguish between different meanings of the term "security". This isn't privacy protection on a governmental scale. Sadly, it doesn't look like any of the major players, Apple included, is willing or able to stand up to governments - legally, illegally, or questionably - demanding access to our communications and other data. (See the ongoing NSA scandal).
This is perhaps better termed authentication or identity as a service, where a mobile device ascertains with a certain standardized degree of certainty that we are who we say we are, and that's used to allow us access the device, and to our login systems, like iCloud keychain, payment systems like a future version of Passbook, and to other services linked to the chain.
It could be a huge business for anyone who can provide a sane, simple solution. Which are both among Apple's traditional strengths.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Palestinian Wedding Dance © Paula Cox
by Susannah Tarbush
Palestinian women are in a sense the unsung heroines of the extraordinarily difficult circumstances in which the Palestinians find themselves. "Celebrating the Life of Palestinian Women", an exhibition of prints by British artist Paula Cox, pays tribute to their role. The show opened at the Kufa Gallery in West London last Wednesday and runs until 5 July.
Cox was awarded a grant by the Arts Council in spring 2004 to go to Palestine as an artist in residence. She has worked with Amnesty International since 1988 as a painter on human rights, and says her art project in Palestine "allowed me a sensitive insight into the rich but devastated Palestinian culture as I attempt to document the daily lives of women who are the innocent victims of a brutal conflict, whose most basic rights are being eroded by life under Israeli occupation."
As a woman artist she was "able to share a special intimacy with the women from a predominantly Muslim culture. I spent time in towns villages and refugee camps in the West Bank but because of the extremely volatile situation I was unable to visit Gaza."
Cox's pictures, with their eloquent fluid lines, reflect the texture of the women's lives. In some pictures women are engaged in everyday tasks such as harvesting olives and preparing bread, vine leaves and other foods. In others they talk with their friends, pray or dream.
In the caption to the colourful print "Palestinian Wedding Dance", Cox recalls how she and Fatimah bought orange, pink and white carnations to take to Fatimah's friend's wedding celebrations in Bethlehem. The groom's brother was not at the wedding; he is in an Israeli prison and has been adopted as a political prisoner by Amnesty International.
The picture "Percussion of falling olives", an assembly of three images, has as its caption a delightful poem by Cox on these "ancient ancestral trees" and "the sweet bitter smell of olives baking in the hot sun/Shovelled by beautiful strong hands/into hessian sacks, sewn up with a huge needle and string."
In "Stuffed Vine Leaves" women share their secrets as they prepare vine leaves for the Ramadan feast. "Mervat's aunt" depicts a woman from Tulkarem refugee camp bringing delicious date and sesame biscuits, and telling of her work as a volunteer in the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
In "Moment of Peace" a woman gazes out beyond a blue door. "Women sitting in their doorways in the villages and refugee camps often look malnourished by the poverty of their situation" Cox says. "I try to bring to life, with line and colour, the beauty and nobility of these strong, generous people who have had their land and human rights stolen from them."
The exhibition embarks on a tour of Palestine in October, starting in Bethlehem. Cox hopes the exhibition will be shown in Gaza, at A M Qattan Foundation's Centre for the Child. She also hopes that a tour of France, the US and some other Western countries can also be arranged.
June 28 2005
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
picture of Haifa Al-Mansour
Women of the East
The women's festival held earlier this month in Turkey was a remarkable assembly of Middle Eastern women intellectuals and artists, but it seems to gone largely unnoticed by the British and presumably other Western media. I heard about it only by chance from one of the participants, the Palestinian singer Reem Kelani, who gave an evening concert during the event.
The "Eastern Women" festival took place in Istanbul from 11 to 17 June. Music events were sprinkled liberally through the programme. The opening concert on the first evening was given by Lebanese singer Jahida Wehbe, who is regarded as one of the great classical Arabic singers performing today.
From Iran came the singer Sima Bina. Born in Khorasan, Bina started her singing career on Iranian radio at the age of only nine under the direction of her father Ahmad Bina, a master of Iranian classical music and a poet who wrote many of Sima's early songs. Another Iranian singer, Sussan Deyhim, gave the closing concert of the festival.
Women filmmakers were present in force at the festival. Saudi filmmaker Haifa Al Mansour showed two films, the prize-winning "The Only Way Around," and "Women Without Shadows". The latter film was recently shown privately at the French consulate in Jeddah where its theme of the covering of women's faces in public elicited a variety of reactions.
The Iraqi filmmaker Maysoun Pachachi (daughter of the veteran politician Adnan Pachachi) showed her films "Journey to Iraq" and "Return to the Land of Wonders." Pachachi has lived in London for many years. In 2004 she co-founded a free-of-charge film-training centre in Baghdad.
"Return to the Land of Wonders" documents her return to Iraq with her father after the 2003 war and Adnan Pachachi's work as head of a committee drafting a new constitution. The film shows how Iraqis were trying to survive and to rid themselves of a sense of despair and defeat.
Egyptian filmmaker Hala Khalil showed "The Best of Times", which has won several prizes. The Iranian film actress and director Rakhshan Bani Etemad hosted a film showing, and Iranian actress Leila Hatami also participated in the festival.
Writers at the festival included Hoda Barakat and Iman Humaydan Younes from Lebanon, Iranian writer Shiva Arastui, Iraqi poet Amal Al-Jubouri, Egyptian novelist Miral Al-Tahawi, Syrian poet Lina Tibi and UAE poet Maysoon Al-Saqr.
The festival's opening panel was entitled "Heritage of the Women of the East." There were also panels on music, cinema, poetry and literature.
It is clear from the festival that Middle Eastern women are very active at the new frontiers of the arts. Given the misconceptions about Middle Eastern women in the West, it might be an idea to stage a similar festival, with the addition of Turkish women artists, in London and other Western cities.
June 28 2005
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Why do British Arab men go back to their home countries to find brides rather than marrying Arab girls brought up in the UK? This is one of the topics covered in the first issue of “Sharq”, a new glossy magazine of British Arab Culture.
In her article “Takeaway Bride”, Layla Maghribi argues that only an Arab girl raised in Britain can understand the bi-cultural upbringing of an Arab British man.
She asks: “What is it that our fellow compatriots have on the Arab continent that is sending the men over, away from the local and familiar women?” She blames among other things the laziness of Arab men, who take the easy option, and the snobbishness and unapproachability of many Arab women in Britain.
In their countries of origin, British Arab men are viewed as a “fine catch indeed.” And they may think women back home make “better wives”, and are more likely to be “pure.” But Maghribi says that girls back home could actually have a more “colourful history” than Arab girls in London.
The content of “Sharq” is a mixture of features, interviews, fashion shoots, beauty, travel, regular columns, reviews and listings of forthcoming events. The magazine has an agony Tante, Suhad Jarra, and a Girl About Town, Ranya Khalil.
The cover of the first issue is graced by a photograph of the musician, model and broadcaster Mona Ibellini. The caption reads: “Mona Ibellini: the New Alicia Keys?”
Sharq’s Editor in Chief and Creative Director is Reem Maghribi, who writes in her editorial: “I have had the pleasure of meeting some fabulously talented and generously spirited Arabs over the past few months.”
She mentions among others Isam, Waqas and Lenny, the members of Danish group Outlandish whose hip-hop is inspired by their Honduran, Pakistani and Moroccan origins.
The magazine includes a features by Judith Brown on “The Image of Arabs in the British Media.” The chairman of Arab Media Watch, Sharif Nashashibi, gives a first hand account of the daily ordeal of travelling around Palestine, and also contributes an interview with Dr Yahya Aridi, the director of the new Syrian media centre in London.
There is a review of the play “My name is Rachel Corrie”, based on the life of the American peace activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in March 2003. On a lighter note, in the Dating, Courting & Relationships section four women “tell all about blind dates, arranged marriages, a slapper and a mother-in-law.”
“Sharq” is sold by subscription and at hotels and newsagents in areas of London frequented by Arabs. It is to be welcomed as giving a voice to the new generation of Arabs brought up in Britain, provided it survives the tough challenges involved in establishing a new publication.
Saudi Gazette June 21 2005
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
On Thursday June 22, the Curzon Cinema in the Mayfair area of central London is to host the UK Gala Premiere of "Seeds", a full-length documentary highlighting an attempt to reconcile young people from some of the world's hottest areas of conflict.
The film was produced by the Al Madad Foundation, which was founded in 2000 as a UK-registered charity by Faiza Alireza of Saudi Arabia with the support of her daughters Basma and Yasmin.
Al Madad is dedicated to the relief of poverty in the developing world, with a particular emphasis on the welfare of children. It raises financial support for cultural, medical and educational projects.
Guest speaker at the premiere is CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, winner of numerous awards. The film's producer and director, Marj Safinia and Joseph Boyle, will introduce the film and answer questions afterwards. The £50 tickets for the premier include a buffet dinner at Al Sultan restaurant in Mayfair.
"Seeds" is an account of the work of Seeds of Peace, the organisation established in 1993 by author and journalist John Wallach.
Seeds of Peace brings teenagers from regions of conflict together for three weeks every summer at an international camp in Maine. The idea is that through getting to know and listen to each other, the young people will learn mutual respect and the skills needed to make lasting peace.
At the Maine camp teenagers meet those from the "other side" whom they would ordinarily be unable to get to know. They include Palestinians and Israelis, Americans and Afghans, Indians and Pakistanis.
"Seeds" focuses on ten of the 166 teenagers at the camp, and chronicles the often difficult and emotional process of reconciliation from the perspective of the children themselves. As one of the Seeds says: "In order to make peace with your enemy, you have to go to war with yourself."
The film has been part of the official selection at some 30 international film festivals. It was runner up in the Audience Award category at both the Palm Springs and Cleveland film festivals.
The world premiere was as the opening night film at Silverdocs, the documentary film festival of AFI/Discovery Channel.
The project to make "Seeds" first took root in February 2002 after Marj Safinia was invited to a Seeds of Peace fundraiser in New York. She and Joseph Boyle subsequently drafted a film proposal and approached John Wallach - little realising that nine other filmmakers had approached Seeds with similar proposals.
Seeds of Peace gave Safinia and Boyle permission to film, and in just over five weeks they and producer Hana Alireza succeeded in raising more than $70,000 for production. They immediately set off for the camp in Maine, and had just three weeks to tell the story with its dramas and twists of fate.
There have been some glowing tributes to the film. Chris Walny of Detroit Documentary Festival described it as "one of those films that just might change the world." Judy Woodruff of CNN said it is "a spectacular film…truly impressive."
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The very first PostgreSQL Graphic Tools Developer Meeting happened last week during PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017 in Warsaw. The meeting gathered 16 developpers repesenting 14 software ( KEXI, Postico, Postgres.app, pgAdmin, DBeaver, pgCluu SQL Tabs, pg_view, bg_mon, pgBadger, pgFormatter, Postgres Professional Manager (not released yet), temBoard, PoWA, pgDevOps, ) and 10 different organizations ( EnterpriseDB, OpenSCG, PostgresPro, EggerApps, Crunchy Data, Dalibo, KDE, 2nd Quadrant, Rider Soft, Zalando )
Here’s my personal report from the meeting, you can also find a more general summary on the PostgreSQL wiki:
PostgreSQL is the best open source database ever and its community is packed with brilliant people. But there’s always room for improvements and the graphic tools is the main area where we need to focus for the forthcoming years. By “PostgreSQL Graphic Tools” I mean any software that provides a visual access to Postgres in large sense. It can be an administration tool, a monitoring tool, an installer or a reporting tool.
The meeting we had in Warsaw was a first step in this direction and it revealed 5 big issues we are currently facing
We are divided
The meeting is just a small part of the whole picture. When we prepared this event with leo cossic we identified more than 60 developers actively working on 35 different tools. This does not include the inactive projects such as PhpPgAmin and the ones we forgot (apologies to Datagrip and Elephant Shed !).
Now let’s compare this to other competitors : Oracle DBAs have
Cloud Control or
TOAD. MySQL users have
Workbench. For MSSQL
Management Studio is pretty much your only choice.
Of course open source is all about diversity, but at some point too much choice is becoming a problem. New PostgreSQL users are getting really confused by this profusion of tools and the comminty workforce is split in separate projects. All in all it is slowing down the PostgreSQL adoption.
What can we do about it ? We need to raise awareness of the community and make a better at promoting the existing solutions. The message must be clear : if you want to build a PostgreSQL administration tool, please fork pgAdmin or another one… But don’t start a new one from scratch….
We don’t talk to each other
The PostgreSQL code base is developped and maintained by a swarm of developers from all over the world, communicating constantly together… If you subscribed to the psql-hackers mailing list, you know that it’s humanly impossible to follow every discussions on a daily basis. However when it comes about graphic tools, the situation is completely opposite. There’s little discussion happening between the different developpers. Every project seems like an oasis in the middle of the desert.
What can we do about it ? The developer meeting itself is a first answer to that. We’ll try to organize a second one in 2018 (probably in Ottawa during PGCon) and hopefully we can have these kind of gathering on a regular basis in different places… We can also create other spaces to talk : a forum, an IRC channels, etc. we’ll see what we need along the way… Right now a dedicated mailing list is probably the best starting point.
We lack basic UI/UX design skills
No offense to anyone here. Developing a database management tool is hard and most of
the GUI developpers I know are primarily DBAs. Very often, they created their
software for their own need and they’re doing their best to build a nice
interface. But we’re in competition against some big companies (Oracle,
Microsoft and others) and they investing a lot in this area. Instread of tyring
to copycat competiting like
Oracle Cloud Control or
PhpMyAdmin, we need to
innovate and improve the design our tools.
What can we do about it ? If you’re a PostgreSQL company, please hire UI/UX experts and make them work with the various existing projects. If you’re a developper with some skills in design, please share your experience and your knowledge.
We don’t know our users
Among the projects presented during the meeting, very few add conducted proper User Research. In fact, most of them didn’t clearly define what is their user base. Again I’m not blaming the developpers here, but if we want to improve the PostgreSQL users experience, we need a better understanding of who our users are, what they want and how they use our software.
Waiting passively for user feedbacks and bug reports is not enough !
We need support from the whole Postgres community
psql is great. Most advanced PostgreSQL admins use it as their primary
tool. But very few people started using Postgres with
psql. Graphic Tools
are the entrypoints of our community. We should never forget that at one point
we were all just beginners and that today’s beginners are the future of our
What can we do about it ? This one is tough. It may require us to get rid
of a huge culture bias. We need to realize that improving graphic tools is
important for everyone, even for users that use exclusively the commande line.
There’s no magic formula for that, and this culture shift will probably take a while but hopefully we’ll get there.
Now What ?
This first meeting left me with many questions but also with great hopes. I am pretty sure we will see big improvements in this area in the forthcoming years.
In fact, PostgreSQL is now so feature rich that we’ve now reached a point where the new challenges are outside the database core itslef. Improving our Graphic tools is one of these future challenges and if we can gather only 10% of the community’s collective intelligence on this matter, we’re going to make great things !
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Making Sunday deliveries for companies such as Amazon is one way for the U.S. Postal Service to offset a decline in traditional mail.
(The Associated Press)
An intriguing business partnership recently made its debut in the Portland area. According to reports from Portland-area customers, the United States Postal Service in recent weeks started delivering Amazon packages on Sundays and holidays. The deliveries were made possible by a contract signed last fall, and the service already was available in a handful of other cities. Now, Portland-area residents get an opportunity to participate in an important experiment.
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The Wall Street Journal described the deal as a "marriage of one of the country's most successful enterprises with one of its most troubled." That's probably a bit of an overstatement about each business. Amazon is wildly popular, but its profits are modest. And the Postal Service faces myriad problems, but its financial hole is smaller than it looks because of the way Congress requires it to account for retirees' health care benefits. But the Postal Service and Amazon do have a chance to help each other – by generating revenue for the USPS and increasing convenience for Amazon's customers.
Here's why the deal could be a significant step forward for the U.S. mail system. By establishing the partnership with Amazon, the Postal Service is playing offense and seeking new revenue instead of simply adopting a defensive posture and looking for ways to cut service.
Related bills in the Senate and House seek to make it easier for the Postal Service to provide new services, as well as addressing the health care accounting and other financial issues. Members of the Oregon delegation have been heavily involved in pushing the legislation, with Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio sponsoring the House bill. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., sponsored the Senate bill with Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley among the co-sponsors.
The bills, which also protect Saturday delivery, have about as much chance of approval before the November elections as the coach of the Brazilian national soccer team has of receiving a pay raise after last week's crushing World Cup loss. But whatever Congress might eventually decide to do about the Postal Service, the bills' proposals related to innovation and product-development should survive. The Amazon contract is a small step toward a more innovative future.
Some of the more promising proposals in the House and Senate bills include:
Allowing the Post Service to deliver beer and wine. This would increase delivery options for wineries and microbreweries and their customers. Plus , there's no reason to exclude the postal system from a growing niche available to private delivery services.
Allowing post offices to offer consumers new services. These could include providing notary services, offering access to new media and issuing licenses (for drivers, hunters, etc.). This could increase convenience for consumers and make government more efficient.
Providing more flexibility in pricing. The range of items that people ship is constantly evolving. Any business, even if it's operated by the federal government, needs the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
More than anything, Congress needs to agree that the U.S. Postal Service still has an important role to fill in an electronics-dominated world. "It's absolutely intrinsic to binding this country together that we have a universal national postal system," DeFazio told The Oregonian editorial board.
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This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end of the Cold War has unleashed new economic and political forces, and new regionalisms have emerged. Computing power is increasingly an impetus to the world economy, and technological developments have changed and are changing almost every aspect of contemporary economic affairs. Gilpin's Global Political Economy considers each of these developments. Reflecting a lifetime of scholarship, it offers a masterful survey of the approaches that have been used to understand international economic relations and the problems faced in the new economy.
Gilpin focuses on the powerful economic, political, and technological forces that have transformed the world. He gives particular attention to economic globalization, its real and alleged implications for economic affairs, and the degree to which its nature, extent, and significance have been exaggerated and misunderstood. Moreover, he demonstrates that national policies and domestic economies remain the most critical determinants of economic affairs. The book also stresses the importance of economic regionalism, multinational corporations, and financial upheavals.
Gilpin integrates economic and political analysis in his discussion of "global political economy." He employs the conventional theory of international trade, insights from the theory of industrial organization, and endogenous growth theory. In addition, ideas from political science, history, and other disciplines are employed to enrich understanding of the new international economic order. This wide-ranging book is destined to become a landmark in the field.
"An extremely well written, lucid, and persuasive analysis of international economic developments and their political implications and results, solidly grounded in history."--Arthur I Cyr, Orbis
"[A] scholarly, theoretical framework for examining how markets and the policies of nation-states determine the way the world economy functions."--Booklist
"Global Political Economy promises to be another classic and a much-consulted addition to academic library bookshelves."--Choice
"Robert Gilpin has written an important book. . . . Although he eschews polemics and writes in a low-key, analytical style, his forceful points serve as a needed antidote to Thomas Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree and other facile works about the subject."--Christopher Layne, The Atlantic Monthly
"In this magisterial study Gilpin. . . shows he is second to none in his capacity to integrate political with economic analysis, and illuminate our understanding of the world political economy with historical and theoretical insights, devoid of the jargon that characterizes much contemporary IPE literature. . . . Gilpin's is an authoritative, but modest voice of common sense."--Martin Rhodes, International Journal of Financial Economics
"Global Political Economy is an excellent book. It represents a major and successful updating of The Political Economy of International Relations. Any person interested in international political economy can profit from reading it."--Jeffrey Hart, Journal of Politics
Table of Contents
This book has been translated into:
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Complex)
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The Wayne Roderick lectures are a very popular series of free public lectures on a broad array of topics related to plants and natural history. Named in honor of its founder, the Wayne Roderick Lecture Series takes place on Saturday mornings at 10:30am from November through February at 10:30 a.m. in the Visitor Center of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden. These illustrated presentations are enjoyable for beginners and professionals alike. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Note: Seating is limited, so it is advisable to arrive early, save a seat, and enjoy the garden until lecture time.
Nov. 17 Wildflowers and wildlife of southeast Alaska -John Kipping
Dec. 1 Humboldt wonderland – Steve Edwards
Dec. 8 2600 miles of natural history on the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail – Bob Sikora
Dec. 15 Floristic surprises in the drought-stricken Southwest – Dick O’Donnell
Dec. 22 Botany and geology of the Lassen region – Steve Edwards
Jan. 5 Fabulous plants and stories from the East Bay flora – Heath Bartosh
Jan. 12 Wildflower trails of Mt. Diablo – Steve Edwards
Jan. 19 Central coasting, with emphasis on our diverse marine algae – Bob Case
Jan. 26 On the trail of Streptanthus (jewel flowers) from Lily Lake (Modoc) to Mt. Eddy, by way of southern Oregon – Dick O’Donnell
Feb. 2 Hiking with a chemist?admiring plants through a chemist’s eyes – Greti Séquin
Feb. 9 A visit to the Mono Recesses and a satisfying walk over the Mono Divide – Michael Uhler
Feb. 16 California geology from the ground up, part one: from the delta south – Steve Edwards
Feb. 23 California geology from the ground up, part two: north of the bay, including the Sierra – Steve Edwards
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If this week's balmy temps are anything to go by, winter and its hardships are finally a distant memory. Unfortunately, this also means you can no longer blame your moody, depressed, irritable shut-in tendencies on your seasonal affective disorder. We've heard, of course, that during the winter, when most of us get little to no sunshine for months on end, low levels of vitamin D cause us to become barely functional cave trolls of despair. But, aside from the fact that it prevents our SAD-monsters from emerging, what exactly is vitamin D, and why do we need it?
On a basic level, our bodies need vitamin D to absorb and regulate calcium and phosphorus and to use the former to build strong bones. It's also essential for ensuring that our muscles, nerves, and immune system function properly. And, some research suggests vitamin D deficiency may be associated with an increased risk of depression, heart disease, and cancer.
While vitamin D is naturally present in a wide variety of foods, including most types of fish and dairy products, the body is also capable of creating its own supply. When we're exposed to direct sunlight (i.e., unobstructed by windows or clouds), our skin reacts with the UVB rays by producing vitamin D. In the winter, the angle of the sun in most parts of the country results in UVB levels that are drastically lower than usual, resulting in most of us making much less vitamin D than we normally would. Those with darker complexions also produce less vitamin D from sunlight and are thus at a greater risk of a deficiency.
Of course, now that summer is tantalizingly close, most of us will be able to get our daily dose of D the old-fashioned way. But, what about sunscreen? Does coating your body with SPF sabotage its ability to make enough of the stuff? While some studies have suggested that using sunblock negatively impacts vitamin D creation, most of the accepted research has found little effect of chronic sunscreen use on vitamin D production. However, I'd like to point out that most of these studies looked at products with SPFs between 15 and 20; that industrial-grade SPF 90 cream could have a serious impact on your body's ability to make its own vitamin D.
For those who are worried about sun damage (or are fish-averse), there are countless supplements that will ensure your vitamin D levels never drop too low. But, considering that it can take as little as 15 minutes for your body to make a full day's supply of the nutrient (depending on your skin type), consider taking a walk in the sunshine to get your D rather than popping a pill. It's better for your sanity, anyway. | <urn:uuid:cc590475-b0df-4a55-a698-fd609b25a3d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/vitamin-d | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.957771 | 564 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Heart surgery: Does it impact cognitive ability? (Medical News Today):
“Almost 8 million people in the United States undergo cardiovascular surgery or other related procedures each year.
Thanks to the steady improvements made by medical science, the procedures are becoming ever safer and can give people a new lease of life.
Aware of improvements in physical health due to cardiovascular surgery, scientists know less about the cognitive impact of open heart surgery.
A recent study set out to understand precisely how heart surgery might influence the mind … Overall, the researchers conclude that individuals who undergo heart valve surgery are likely to have reduced cognitive ability for the first few months after the procedure.
Although mental ability is likely to return to normal within 6 months, this is a matter for further research. The authors of the study note this as one of the study’s shortfalls — they did not investigate cognitive performance past the 6‑month point…
The authors hope that their findings “encourage routine preoperative cognitive assessment to establish cognitive baseline and postoperative assessment to monitor trajectory.”
According to the authors, it would be useful if future studies focused on the specific factors that made valve surgery patients more susceptible to cognitive decline. This could guide clinicians as they help patients and their families through the recovery process.”
Cognitive Outcomes After Heart Valve Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta?Analysis (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society). From the abstract:
- Objectives: To summarize evidence on cognitive outcomes after heart valve surgery; secondary aim, to examine whether aortic and mitral valve surgery are associated with different cognitive outcomes.
- Measurements: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO for peer?reviewed reports of individuals undergoing heart valve surgery who underwent pre? and postoperative cognitive assessment. Our initial search returned 1,475 articles, of which 12 were included. Postoperative cognitive results were divided into those from 1 week to 1 month (early outcomes, npooled?=?450) and from 2 to 6 months (intermediate outcomes; npooled?=?722). No studies with longer?term outcomes were identified.
- Results: Subjects had moderate early cognitive decline from baseline (Becker mean gain effect size (ES)=?0.39?±?0.27) that improved slightly by 2 to 6 months (ES=–0.25?±?0.38). Individuals undergoing aortic valve surgery—who were older on average than those undergoing mitral valve surgery (68 vs 57)—had greater early cognitive decline than those undergoing mitral valve surgery (ES=–0.68 vs ?0.12), but both cohorts had similar decline 2 to 6 months postoperatively (ES=–0.27 vs ?0.20).
- Conclusions: Heart valve surgery is associated with cognitive decline over the 6 months after surgery, but outcomes beyond 6 months are unclear. These findings highlight the cognitive vulnerability of this population, especially older adults with aortic stenosis.
The Study in Context:
- Study: 10-minute cognitive test MoCA helps predict long-term motor, cognitive and mortality outcomes after stroke
- Next: FDA-cleared mobile brain monitoring tools to detect cognitive impairment
- Should Hospitals Monitor, and Work to Maintain, Patients’ Cognitive Function?
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Malaysia is one of Asia's biggest employers of foreign labour. But recently, cases of deaths, abuse and forced labour have come to light. What is going on? Who is protecting these migrant workers?
Kuala Lumpur, Aug 11 — Over 128,000 workers in Malaysia are employed in slave-like conditions and treated like livestock, according to the Global Slavery Index 2016.
The survey ranked Malaysia 50th out of 167 countries measured, with nearly a half per cent of the over 30 million population working in exploitative conditions described as “modern slavery”.
“[Modern] slavery refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, abuse of power or deception, with treatment akin to a farm animal.
“For example, their passport might be taken away if they are in a foreign country, they may experience or be threatened with violence or their family might be threatened,” said the Walk Free Foundation that commissioned the report.
In the region, Malaysia was behind Singapore (130th, 9,200 people) in the number of workers considered to be modern day slaves, but ahead of Vietnam (47th, 139,300), the Philippines (19th, 401,000), Thailand (16th, 425,000) and Indonesia (10th, 736,100) The country with the most enslaved workers was India, with over 18 million, followed by China (3.3 million) and Pakistan (2.1 million). Luxembourg has the fewest at 100.
Over 45 million people across the 167 countries were in modern slavery.
Malaysia was also rated “CCC” in terms of government action to modern-day slavery, which is categorised as “limited response” as well as “limited support” for victims. The 10-tier ranking ranges from “AAA”, the best, to D, the worst.
According to the report, the majority of modern-day slaves in Malaysia — as with other richer Asian countries — were women and young girls who migrated work as domestic helpers.
“Inhumane treatment of domestic workers including starvation and sexual abuse was reported in 2015, as well as indicators of forced labour including extortionate recruitment fees, confinement to the place of employment, excessive unpaid overtime, withholding of wages and confiscation of identity documents,” the report said.
The spotlight fell on human smuggling in Malaysia and the surrounding region during a refugee crisis last year, when an estimated 6,000 to 20,000 migrants fleeing ethnic persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh were left adrift in the Andaman Sea and the Straits of Malacca.
In what was dubbed a massive humanitarian disaster by the United Nations, the boat people were believed abandoned by their traffickers with little food or water.
Malaysia was previously ranked in the lowest Tier 3 of the US annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, but was upgraded to its current Tier 2 “watch list” despite the discovery of 139 graves and 28 human trafficking camps at Wang Kelian, Perlis, along the Thai border.
Lawmakers in both countries expressed suspicion at the time that Malaysia’s upgrade was to facilitate its participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership; the Tier 3 status would have prevented the US from entering a trade deal with Malaysia.
Source: Malay Mail Online
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Placenta Previa Questions For Doctor
The following are some important questions to ask before and after the treatment of placenta previa.
Questions to ask before treatment:
- What are my treatment options?
- Will I need a Cesarean section?
- What are the risks associated with treatment?
- Do I need to stay in the hospital?
- How long will I be in the hospital?
- What are the complications I should watch for?
- How long will I be on medication?
- What are the potential side effects of my medication?
Questions to ask after treatment:
- Do I need to change my diet?
- Are there any medications or supplements I should avoid?
- When can I resume my normal activities?
- When can I return to work?
- What else can I do to reduce my risk for having a placental abruption again?
- How often will I need to see my doctor for checkups?
- What local support and other resources are available?
Continue to Placenta Previa Specialist
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It has been seen that rash can break out after consuming alcohol. This rash is termed as alcohol allergy. This is particularly true for some people who are sensitive to certain types of foods. This is caused by their respective immune system developing intolerance towards certain food components.
In case of alcohol, the immune system in some people cannot tolerate certain components in alcohol. This intolerance to the components present in the alcohol leads to skin rash. Alcohol can have many adverse effects like headache, skin rash, nasal congestion and vomiting in people who are highly sensitive.
Many times, the body is not able to break down the components present in the alcohol. This is a common and normal phenomenon to show resistance and intolerance towards certain food. This response differs depending on the immune system in the human body. If the immune system finds a certain food component harmful, then it will show reaction; a rash is usually the outcome. So, it completely depended on the individual’s immunity system.
The best way to avoid such allergies is to abstain from consuming alcohol. Non alcoholic drinks like coffee and tea are better drinks than alcohol. Alcohol can lead to skin rash and cause other adverse effects like difficulty in breathing and vomiting. So, it is a good idea to avoid alcohol to prevent such problems.
One can try other nutritious food or drinks instead of alcohol. Skin rash is a symptom of food intolerance. Though skin rash due to alcohol consumption is rare, it is best to avoid alcohol in case you are allergic to it.
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AGNES, TEXAS. Agnes is on State Highway 199 eighteen miles north of Weatherford in north central Parker County. Settlement began there in the late 1870s, when B. B. Barnard opened a general store. The community petitioned for postal service in 1879 under the name Agnes, in honor of Agnes Mull, the daughter of a pioneer physician in North Texas. By the mid-1880s two churches, a public school, a blacksmith shop, and Barnard's General Store served the seventy-five residents. Area farmers brought their crops to Agnes to be processed at the cotton gin and gristmill. Cotton, corn, and oats were shipped on the Texas and Pacific Railway. Postal service was discontinued in 1907, though Agnes continued as a dispersed rural community throughout the twentieth century. Its population has never exceeded 100.
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When learners take responsibility to write something they are interested in for an audience of their peers like this learner from Yukon Public Schools, they are motivated to write, read each others work, and want to learn and do more.
Responsibility means a moral obligation and something taken upon one's self.
Most of the teachers we know feel wholly and morally responsible for their learners. That's why most of us went into the profession: to make a difference. Yet is it up to us for learners to learn the content?
Accountability is more of a social contract or social obligation. Accountability can be measurable. If teachers are accountable for their learners' learning, then why would learners feel responsible for their own learning?
If these are the correct definitions then "accountability" refers to making, keeping, and managing agreements and expectations where "responsibility" is the feeling of ownership. So that's it! That's what we've been talking about. Being responsible for our own learning. Maybe this also means that each learner needs to be held accountable for what they learn by taking responsibility for their own learning. Okay - so maybe we confused you, but this is what we mean when we talk about personalizing learning. Teachers usually feel a responsibility to create an environment that engages and motivates learners to want to learn.
“As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!” Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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Posts Tagged WebRTC
I think it is going to be a great conference. Of course, I’m slightly biased as I helped organize it again this year as a co-chair of the WebRTC and Cloud Communications Track. I’m also an adjunct professor at IIT – I remote teach a WebRTC class there, using WebRTC, of course!
Here are some of the highlights for me:
- “The Future of Open Source Software in Telecom” panel, moderated by Andy Abramson on the first day of the conference, Tuesday October 6, 2015 at 1pm.
- “What’s Next for WebRTC” panel, moderated by Chad Hart of webrtcHacks on October 6, 2015 at 4:30pm.
- “Simple secure federated identity for WebRTC (your new phone number)”, a presentation by the always interesting Tim Panton on Wednesday October 7, 2015 at 9am.
- WebRTC and Federated Identity Tutorials on the day before the conference, Monday October 5, 2015 from 9am – 5pm. Dan Burnett and I will give the WebRTC tutorial in the morning, and Matthew Hodgson from matrix.org will give the identity tutorial in the afternoon.
- TADHack Mini Hackathon, the weekend before the conference, October 3 – 4, 2015. These are so much fun, and I can’t wait to see what people come up with, especially some of my students… Who will win the $8k in prizes? Kudos to Alan Quayle for organizing these incredibly creative events.
Besides these highlights, I always find interesting things in the other tracks, including:
- IPTComm (the latest from researchers in this area),
- Mobile Networks, Platforms and Applications
- Next Generation Emergency Communications Services, and
- Internet of Things (IoT)
And don’t forget a keynote by Henning Schulzrinne, of SIP and FCC fame, on “5G: What can we learn from the previous four generations?” on Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 11am.
Will I see you there?
I am very proud of the Third Edition of the WebRTC Book that came out just a few weeks ago. My co-author Dan and I have been working on it for months, and it is always exciting to launch a new edition!
We worked feverishly during the IETF-89 meeting in London to get all the updates finished – all the APIs, protocols, and standards referenced should be up to date as of then (first week in March). We also had a lot of fun testing and doing screen captures of the new Demo Application, which now utilizes the WebRTC data channel for Real-Time Text (RTT) between the two browsers. I’ll write another day about RTT and how much fun it is compared to normal texting or instant messaging in another post. For us, to make use of the data channel APIs and protocols and show the interoperability between Chrome and Firefox browsers was a lot of fun as well.
The Demo Application also can now utilize a TURN server for enhanced NAT traversal. In some circumstances, NATs or firewalls will prevent a direct peer-to-peer Peer Connection from being established between two browsers, and a relay in the cloud is needed. If the Demo Application fails for you, try reloading the page adding a ?turnuri=1 to the URL and see if it works for you!
Also new for this edition is a description of how to analyze WebRTC protocols on your computer using the excellent open source packet capture and analysis tool Wireshark. Between Wireshark and various browser tools (try Tools/Developer Tools in Chrome and Tools/Web Developer in Firefox, or chrome://webrtc-internals in Chrome for lots of useful WebRTC info), you can learn a lot just by playing with WebRTC. If your application is not working, these tools allow you to debug and analyze what is happening.
Finally, Dan’s introduction to the WebRTC API has been greatly expanded with step-by-step introductions to the various functional parts of the client and server code. As always, you can download all of our Demo Application code from our book website, and also see it running as well.
We have received so much excellent feedback in the one and a half years since we published the first edition. We can’t wait to hear from you on what you think of the Third Edition. We enjoy hearing from you on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+.
Today, I published a new Internet-Draft on how to securely communicate over the Internet using a new web technology known as WebRTC and the ZRTP protocol. Using this technique, Internet users can determine if the National Security Agency, or anyone else, is listening in to their calls placed using a web browser. There are already a number of commercial and open source products utilizing ZRTP, including Silent Circle, Jitsi, and others, but this new technique opens it up for all web users.
With WebRTC, all media flows are encrypted and authenticated using Secure RTP or SRTP. Unfortunately, the keying method chosen for WebRTC is DTLS-SRTP or Datagram Transport Layer Security for Secure Real-time Transport Protocol. DTLS-SRTP on its own does not provide protection against Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks, also known as eavesdropping attacks. Today, the news is full of reasons why Internet users need such protection. We now know the surveillance of Internet users is widespread.
The ZRTP security protocol, published as RFC 6189 back in 2011, was invented by Phil Zimmermann to allow Internet users to communicate securely and privately over the Internet. ZRTP was not selected as the default keying method for WebRTC, despite it being the ideal candidate.
How does this work? You’ll have to read the ZRTP specification to find out exactly how, but in simple technical terms, it is because ZRTP uses a technique known as a Diffie-Hellman key exchange augmented with a hash commitment. This allows the SAS, which can be two words or four hex digits, to prove that a media session has no eavesdroppers present.
Everyone needs privacy in their communication, and WebRTC with ZRTP finaly provides a real solution to all Internet users.
I’ve been fortunate to be involved in WebRTC right from the beginning in the standards, and with my friend Dan Burnett wrote the first book on WebRTC. Perhaps you have read it? Although it has been less than a year since we first published it, we recently published the second edition to track the increasing pace of development and innovation in WebRTC.
Now, we are pleased to announce online and in-person training and certification for WebRTC, in partnership with the WebRTC School. We have put together two training classes:
Certified WebRTC Integrator – this is a course for architects, system integrators, and VoIP and telephony developers who want to integrate WebRTC communications from browsers into their existing VoIP and video conferencing infrastructure. It details all the protocols needed and the principles behind architecting and designing gateways. This course is online right now at the WebRTC School!
We are very excited to be launching these training classes. But what is the certification part? Following its highly successful SIP School Certified Associate (SSCA) program, WebRTC School is offering certification via online testing for Certified WebRTC Integrator (CWI) and Certified WebRTC Developer (CWD) programs.
I hope these classes will help spread the word on WebRTC! If you take either of these classes, I’d love to hear from you what you think and what you have learned.
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From now until November 9, you can sign up to win a paperback copy. Winners notified on November 10.
WebRTC, Web Real-Time Communications, is a fast moving topic these days! Here are a few of my suggestions for how to keep up.
First a note about terminology. Although Google named their open source project webrtc, WebRTC is not just a Google project, it is a major industry initiative involving open Internet standards being developed by many participants. Don’t confuse these two!
Google and Mozilla are the browsers most actively implementing WebRTC today. WebRTC is available in Google Chrome Beta browser. Download and give it a try for the latest WebRTC extensions. Some future WebRTC capabilities may be in Google’s Chrome Canary which is the developers preview version of the browser. To experiment with Mozilla Firefox, you will need to use their nightly build. Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari don’t yet have anything available, but you can track their future announcements here and here.
WebRTC is not just about browser deployments, it is about standard APIs and standard protocols. To really follow what is going on in WebRTC, you need to track the standards being developed in the W3C and IETF. This can be a bit tricky, but if you start with the W3C WEBRTC Working Group and the IETF RTCWEB Working Group, that is a good start.
If you have an eReader, try this out. Here is a link to download the entire set of RTCWEB IETF Internet-Drafts in EPUB format and here is the set in MOBI format. Various other sets of IETF documents and RFCs is also available at http://tools.ietf.org/ebook/. The conversion is done using a script written by Tero Kivinen – nice job! The formatting of the ASCII art is not 100%, but this is a difficult problem. The MOBI format worked better for me than the EPUB version, but YMMV. Perhaps one day the IETF will adopt a friendlier format for Internet-Drafts and RFCs, but I’m not holding my breath!
3. Try WebRTC sites and applications
There are a number of sites and applications already taking advantage of WebRTC features. One of my favorites is FrisB, a cool new way to think about browser to PSTN communication. You can find plenty of others by searching the web. Also, many developers announce and discuss their WebRTC projects on Twitter, so searching with the #webrtc hashtag can find lots of cool things.
There are some interesting blogs out there on WebRTC, including a blog by Tsahi Levent-Levi.
For background on WebRTC, there are some decent resources. You might enjoy this video presentation by one of the editors of the W3C WebRTC specification, Cullen Jennings. If you like books, you might like “WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web” written by myself and Dan Burnett, also a co-author of the main WebRTC spec and also the Media Capture and Streams specification.
Best of luck in following WebRTC! Feel free to share your own favorite ways and links to follow this work.
I’ve spent many years of my career working on interoperability in communication systems. Back in the dark ages, I did SS7 interoperability testing. During my CLEC days, I ran a test lab that tested optical, telephony, and ATM/Frame Relay equipment. I’ve spent many years working on interoperability issues with SIP, starting with the SIP call flows (RFC 3665 and RFC 3666) and then SDP Offer answer (RFC 4317). I’ve also been to many SIPits (SIP interoperability events run by the SIP Forum), testing voice and video interoperability.
WebRTC poses some interesting interoperability challenges, but I am hopeful we will get it right.
There are four different areas of interoperability: browser, protocol, codec, and offer/answer. Lets go through them one by one.
Browser interoperability is about aWebRTC application or site working the same regardless of which browser the user is using. In the past browser interoperability was just a browser/server issue, but with the peer-to-peer media and data channel flows of WebRTC, this is now a browser/browser issue. The good news is that there are only a handful of browsers, so the interop matrix is not too large. The bad news is that there are signs of discord already in pre-standards implementations. For one thing, all browsers must utilize the same APIs, or else WebRTC will be a major headache for developers. Of course, libraries can hide this complexity from developers, but this will slow down deployment and produces some needlessly bad user experiences. If we see one browser vendor using their own APIs instead of using the standard ones from the W3C, then we will know that someone is playing company games at the expense of the Internet users of the world. Hopefully this won’t happen, but it if does, users will and developers will likely move away from that browser.
Protocol interoperability is a major concern for WebRTC. In the past, browsers didn’t implement many protocols – everything used HTTP (Hyper-Text Transport Protocol). Today, browsers are doing more, including WebSockets, and will soon move to the next version of HTTP, 2.0. With WebRTC, the browser RTC Function has to implement multiple protocols including RTP, ICE, STUN, TURN, SCTP etc. These protocols define “bits on the wire” and “state machines” that ensure that interoperability works. For browser-to-browser media and data channels to work, browsers must implement these protocols and carefully follow the standards. If they don’t the whole industry will suffer. There are some issues today with the pre-standard WebRTC browser implementations. For example, one browser today implements a proprietary STUN client that will not work with standard STUN servers. Browser vendors will need to take protocol interoperability very seriously, and recognize that this is something new for them and that they need to follow industry best practices and approaches.
Codec interoperability is about ensuring that media sessions don’t fail because there is no common codec supported on both ends of the session. There are so many codecs in use, and every vendor and service provider seems to have their own favorite one. Fortunately, we should be able to avoid this for audio codecs. The IETF has recently finalized the Opus audio codec for speech and music, published as RFC 6717 this month. It really is a fantastic codec, much better than all the rest, making it an easy choice as one mandatory to implement (MTI) codec for WebRTC. Opus is also available as open source. The other MTI codec is G.711, also known as PCM, which provides interoperability in the VoIP and telephony world, and is also needed for interworking with the telephone network. Video codec choice is much more difficult. While H.264 is widely used today, there are no open source implementations or royalty-free licensing available for browsers or implementors. As such, it is very difficult to see how it could be chosen as a MTI video codec. Google’s VP8 video codec is proposed as an alternative, and is available in open source. However, there is much uncertainty about the licensing status of VP8. Should WebRTC deploy without common video codecs, this again could result in interoperability delays.
Offer/answer interoperability is perhaps the least understood, but most important area. Offer/answer refers to the negotiation of codecs, parameters, and settings for the media session or data channel between the two browsers. Even if both browsers use common APIs, standard protocols, and common codecs, if they are unable to successfully negotiate and configure their media or data channel, the connection will fail. WebRTC uses Session Description Protocol (SDP) to do this offer/answer exchange. The pre-standard WebRTC implementations are, frankly, a mess in this area. Their SDP is not standard, and not interoperable with anything else. It will take a lot of work to get this right, and we all must insist that browser vendors support standard offer/answer negotiations.
Occasionally, it is suggested that perhaps offer/answer would be easier if we didn’t use SDP. We all know and hate SDP, and it is ugly and awkward to use. However, it has taken over a decade’s work and experience to make it work, and any replacement would likely take that many years to get to work. And, in addition, since much of the standards-based VoIP and video world uses SDP, it would need to map to SDP as well. I can’t see this helping interoperability in any way. Previous efforts to replace SDP failed (anyone remember SDPng?) and I think anyone advocating replacing SDP needs to explain why a new effort wouldn’t meet a similar end, and why this effort wouldn’t take a decade. Also, the complexities of offer/answer relate to the complexities of negotiating an end-to-end session, and the actual syntax of the descriptions are a very small part of the complexity.
So WebRTC definitely has some interoperability challenges ahead of it. Fortunately, there are
many experienced engineers who are participating and helping with the effort. As long as the browser vendors take this seriously and don’t play games, I think WebRTC will have good interoperability, which will benefit web developers and web users alike.
If you are interested in WebRTC, you might like my new book “WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web” published this month by Digital Codex LLC.
Today, I’m excited to announce the publication of my new technical book entitled “WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web”. The book introduces and explains Web Real-Time Communicatons (RTC), a hot topic in the web and Internet Communications industry right now.
Many of us enjoy services such as Skype, but you have to download the app and install it before you can talk to anyone. WebrRTC browsers have all this built into them – no download, no codecs, no Flash, no plugins needed! This will be really popular with web users. Imagine what Google or Facebook could do with this?
If you want to try WebRTC today, it is already in Google’s Chrome Canary (developers version). There are sites out there today live – I’ll share them in future posts. It will be available in most browsers starting next year.
If you want to learn about WebRTC, you might find my book, written with my co-author Daniel C. Burnett from Voxeo), useful. I enjoyed writing it!
Feel free to interact with us on social media, Google+ or Twitter. Comments, suggestions, and opinions are most welcome.
One area of application is WebRTC, the work to enable real-time communications services in web pages. One approach that has been discussed in both the IETF and W3C is to use Websockets to open a new connection between the browser and web server, and run a signaling, presence, or instant messaging protocol over it. For example, it had been proposed to run SIP, Session Initiation Protocol, this way.
A few months ago I blogged about WebRTC and SIP, and argued that SIP should not be standardized by WebRTC, as had been proposed back then. I still believe this is correct, and recent work in the IETF has centered around instead standardizing some kind of offer/answer media negotiating protocol, but leave the choice of signaling protocol open.
Recently a new Internet Draft was submitted on a Websocket transport for Session Initiation Protocol. I think this is a potentially useful approach and could be a good way to utilize SIP in conjunction with WebRTC. The draft is still in it’s early days, and has not yet been adopted by the SIPCORE Working Group yet, but I think it is a great start. SIP developers who are interested in the WebRTC effort should read this draft and support this work.
In the meantime, it is great to see WebSocket finally published as an RFC, something I hope to see happen to a few of my Internet Drafts in the new year!
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The publication outlines how fishers’ knowledge can be applied to support sustainable small-scale fisheries.
A new guideline has been published for documenting, safeguarding, and utilizing fishers’ knowledge.
The guideline titled ‘IUCN Guidelines for gathering of fishers’ knowledge for policy development and applied use’ is the result of a collaboration among IUCN, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, and the International Planning Committee Working Group on Fisheries.
Two Honorary Members of ICCA Consortium; Kevin Chang of Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo KUA (Member, ICCA Consortium) and Vivienne Solis-Rivera of CoopeSoliDar are part of the working group that coordinated the development of the guideline.
The Guidelines aim to make it easier for users to recognize and include fishers’ knowledge as an important data stream in resource management. The 180-page publication presents detailed methods and standards about how fishers’ knowledge can be gathered. It also outlines how this information can be applied to support sustainable fisheries policy.
These Guidelines are applicable in small-scale fisheries; in freshwater, riverine, lacustrine, and near-shore coastal areas. Type of fisheries where communities rely on fishing for sustenance, recreation, or a source of income. The Guidelines can be used in fisheries, which are overexploited, to support fisheries change management, those that have limited data management, and in sustainably utilized fisheries.
The development of the guidelines, led by the IUCN SSC/CEESP Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group, followed a robust participatory process and consulted with stakeholders from subject matter experts to governments, small-scale fisher organizations, Indigenous fisher organizations, civil society organizations, research and academia, and the private sector; included contributions from 50 experts and case studies from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central, and South America, and the Pacific.
It may be noted that recently ICCA Consortium has launched a new initiative to protect territories of life and community fisheries in freshwater, coastal, and marine systems. Building on our Members’ many years of existing experience, it will support community-centric activities at the local, national, regional, and global levels in line with our mission and strategic approach.
Community fisheries and territories of life in freshwater, coastal, and marine systems are extraordinarily diverse and thrive in all regions of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic. However, they often face common threats from top-down conservation, industrial fisheries, and other destructive activities, and more broadly from exclusionary policies, laws, and decision-making processes that affect them.
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Bremen, Germany — Believing he was answering a holy call, Harry Sarfo left his home in the working-class city of Bremen last year and drove for four straight days to reach the territory controlled by the Islamic State in Syria.
He barely had time to settle in before members of the Islamic State’s secret service, wearing masks over their faces, came to inform him and his German friend that they no longer wanted Europeans to come to Syria. Where they were really needed was back home, to help carry out the group’s plan of waging terrorism across the globe.
“He was speaking openly about the situation, saying that they have loads of people living in European countries and waiting for commands to attack the European people,” Mr. Sarfo recounted on Monday, in an interview with The New York Times conducted in English inside the maximum-security prison near Bremen. “And that was before the Brussels attacks, before the Paris attacks.”
The masked man explained that, although the group was well set up in some European countries, it needed more attackers in Germany and Britain, in particular. “They said, ‘Would you mind to go back to Germany, because that’s what we need at the moment,’” Mr. Sarfo recalled. “And they always said they wanted to have something that is occurring in the same time: They want to have loads of attacks at the same time in England and Germany and France.”
The operatives belonged to an intelligence unit of the Islamic State known in Arabic as the Emni, which has become a combination of an internal police force and an external operations branch, dedicated to exporting terror abroad, according to thousands of pages of French, Belgian, German and Austrian intelligence and interrogation documents obtained by The Times.
The Islamic State’s attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 brought global attention to the group’s external terrorism network, which began sending fighters abroad two years ago. Now, Mr. Sarfo’s account, along with those of other captured recruits, has further pulled back the curtain on the group’s machinery for projecting violence beyond its borders.
What they describe is a multilevel secret service under the overall command of the Islamic State’s most senior Syrian operative, spokesman and propaganda chief, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani. Below him is a tier of lieutenants empowered to plan attacks in different regions of the world, including a “secret service for European affairs,” a “secret service for Asian affairs” and a “secret service for Arab affairs,” according to Mr. Sarfo.
Reinforcing the idea that the Emni is a core part of the Islamic State’s operations, the interviews and documents indicate that the unit has carte blanche to recruit and reroute operatives from all parts of the organization — from new arrivals to seasoned battlefield fighters, and from the group’s special forces and its elite commando units. Taken together, the interrogation records show that operatives are selected by nationality and grouped by language into small, discrete units whose members sometimes only meet one another on the eve of their departure abroad.
And through the coordinating role played by Mr. Adnani, terror planning has gone hand-in-hand with the group’s extensive propaganda operations — including, Mr. Sarfo claimed, monthly meetings in which Mr. Adnani chose which grisly videos to promote based on battlefield events.
Based on the accounts of operatives arrested so far, the Emni has become the crucial cog in the group’s terrorism machinery, and its trainees led the Paris attacks and built the suitcase bombs used in a Brussels airport terminal and subway station. Investigation records show that its foot soldiers have also been sent to Austria, Germany, Spain, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
With European officials stretched by a string of assaults by seemingly unconnected attackers who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, Mr. Sarfo suggested that there may be more of a link than the authorities yet know. He said he was told that undercover operatives in Europe used new converts as go-betweens, or “clean men,” who help link up people interested in carrying out attacks with operatives who can pass on instructions on everything from how to make a suicide vest to how to credit their violence to the Islamic State.
The group has sent “hundreds of operatives” back to the European Union, with “hundreds more in Turkey alone,” according to a senior United States intelligence official and a senior American defense official, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.
Mr. Sarfo, who was recently moved out of solitary confinement at his German prison because he is no longer considered violent, agrees with that assessment. “Many of them have returned,” he said. “Hundreds, definitely.”
The first port of call for new arrivals to the Islamic State is a network of dormitories in Syria, just across the border from Turkey. There, recruits are interviewed and inventoried.
Mr. Sarfo was fingerprinted, and a doctor came to draw a blood sample and perform a physical examination. A man with a laptop conducted an intake interview. “He was asking normal questions like: ‘What’s your name? What’s your second name? Who’s your mom? Where’s your mom originally from? What did you study? What degree do you have? What’s your ambition? What do you want to become?’” Mr. Sarfo said.
His background was also of interest. He was a regular at a radical mosque in Bremen that had already sent about 20 members to Syria, at least four of whom were killed in battle, according to Daniel Heinke, the German Interior Ministry’s counterterrorism coordinator for the area. And he had served a one-year prison sentence for breaking into a supermarket safe and stealing 23,000 euros. Even though the punishment for theft in areas under Islamic State control is amputation, a criminal past can be a valued asset, Mr. Sarfo said, “especially if they know you have ties to organized crime and they know you can get fake IDs, or they know you have contact men in Europe who can smuggle you into the European Union.”
The bureaucratic nature of the intake procedure was recently confirmed by American officials after USB drives were recovered in the recently liberated Syrian city of Manbij, one of the hubs for processing foreign fighters.
Mr. Sarfo checked all the necessary boxes, and on the third day after his arrival, the members of the Emni came to ask for him. He wanted to fight in Syria and Iraq, but the masked operatives explained that they had a vexing problem.
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“They told me that there aren’t many people in Germany who are willing to do the job,” Mr. Sarfo said soon after his arrest last year, according to the transcript of his interrogation by German officials, which runs more than 500 pages. “They said they had some in the beginning. But one after another, you could say, they chickened out, because they got scared — cold feet. Same in England.”
By contrast, the group had more than enough volunteers for France. “My friend asked them about France,” Mr. Sarfo said. “And they started laughing. But really serious laughing, with tears in their eyes. They said, ‘Don’t worry about France.’ ‘Mafi mushkilah’ — in Arabic, it means ‘no problem.’” That conversation took place in April 2015, seven months before the coordinated killings in Paris in November, the worst terrorist attack in Europe in over a decade.
While some details of Mr. Sarfo’s account cannot be verified, his statements track with what other recruits related in their interrogations. And both prison officials and the German intelligence agents who debriefed Mr. Sarfo after his arrest said they found him credible.
Since the rise of the Islamic State over two years ago, intelligence agencies have been collecting nuggets on the Emni. Originally, the unit was tasked with policing the Islamic State’s members, including conducting interrogations and ferreting out spies, according to interrogation records and analysts. But French members arrested in 2014 and 2015 explained that the Emni had taken on a new portfolio: projecting terror abroad.
“It’s the Emni that ensures the internal security inside Dawla” — the Arabic word for state — “and oversees external security by sending abroad people they recruited, or else sending individuals to carry out violent acts, like what happened in Tunisia inside the museum in Tunis, or else the aborted plot in Belgium,” said Nicolas Moreau, 32, a French citizen who was arrested last year after leaving the Islamic State in Syria, according to his statement to France’s domestic intelligence agency.
Mr. Moreau explained that he had run a restaurant in Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of the group’s territory, where he had served meals to key members of the Emni — including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the on-the-ground commander of the Paris attacks, who was killed in a standoff with the police days later.
Other interrogations, as well as Mr. Sarfo’s account, have led investigators to conclude that the Emni also trained and dispatched the gunman who opened fire on a beach in Sousse, Tunisia, in June, and the man who prepared the Brussels airport bombs.
Records from French, Austrian and Belgian intelligence agencies show that at least 28 operatives recruited by the Emni succeeded in deploying to countries outside of the Islamic State’s core territory, mounting both successful attacks and plots that were foiled. Officials say that dozens of other operatives have slipped through and formed sleeper cells.
In his own interactions with the Emni, Mr. Sarfo realized that they were preparing a global portfolio of terrorists and looking to fill holes in their international network, he said.
He described what he had been told about the group’s work to build an infrastructure in Bangladesh. There, a siege by a team of Islamic State gunmen left at least 20 hostages dead at a cafe last month, almost all of them foreigners.
Mr. Sarfo said that for Asian recruits, the group was looking specifically for militants who had emerged from Al Qaeda’s network in the region. “People especially from Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia — they have people who used to work for Al Qaeda, and once they joined the Islamic State, they are asking them questions about their experiences and if they have contacts,” he said.
In his briefings with the German authorities, and again in the interview this week, Mr. Sarfo raised the possibility that some of the recent attackers in Europe who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State’s leader during their assaults might have a more direct link to the group than officials believe.
Mr. Sarfo explained that the Emni keeps many of its operatives underground in Europe. They act as nodes that can remotely activate potential suicide attackers who have been drawn in by propaganda. Linking them are what Mr. Sarfo called “clean men,” new converts to Islam with no established ties to radical groups.
“These people are not in direct contact with these guys who are doing the attacks, because they know if these people start talking, they will get caught,” he said of the underground operatives.
“They mostly use people who are new Muslims, who are converts,” he said. Those “clean” converts “get in contact with the people, and they give them the message.” And in the case of some videotaped pledges of allegiance, the go-between can then send the video on to the handler in Europe, who uploads it for use by the Islamic State’s propaganda channels.
The intelligence documents and Mr. Sarfo agree that the Islamic State has made the most of its recruits’ nationalities by sending them back to plot attacks at home. Yet one important region where the Emni is not thought to have succeeded in sending trained attackers is North America, Mr. Sarfo said, recalling what the members of the branch told him.
Though dozens of Americans have become members of the Islamic State, and some have been recruited into the external operations wing, “they know it’s hard for them to get Americans into America” once they have traveled to Syria, he said.
“For America and Canada, it’s much easier for them to get them over the social network, because they say the Americans are dumb — they have open gun policies,” he said. “They say we can radicalize them easily, and if they have no prior record, they can buy guns, so we don’t need to have no contact man who has to provide guns for them.”
Since late 2014, the Islamic State has instructed foreigners joining the group to make their trip look like a holiday in southern Turkey, including booking a return flight and paying for an all-inclusive vacation at a beach resort, from which smugglers arrange their transport into Syria, according to intelligence documents and Mr. Sarfo’s account.
That cover story creates pressure to keep things moving quickly during the recruits’ training in Syria, and most get a bare minimum — just a few days of basic weapons practice, in some instances.
“When they go back to France or in Germany, they can say, ‘I was only on holidays in Turkey,’” Mr. Sarfo said. “The longer they stay in the Islamic State, the more suspicious the secret service in the West gets, and that’s why they try to do the training as quickly as possible.”
Mr. Sarfo’s facility in both German and English — he studied construction at Newham College in East London — made him attractive as a potential attacker. Though the Emni approached him several times to ask him to return to Germany, he demurred, he said.
Eventually, Mr. Sarfo, perhaps because of his burly build — 6-foot-1 and around 286 pounds when he arrived in Syria, though he has lost weight since then — was drafted into the Islamic State’s quwat khas, Arabic for special forces.
The unit only admitted single men who agreed not to marry during the duration of their training. In addition to providing the offensive force to infiltrate cities during battles, it was one of several elite units that became recruiting pools for the external operations branch, Mr. Sarfo said.
Along with his German friend, he was driven to the desert outside Raqqa.
“They dropped us off in the middle of nowhere and told us, ‘We are here,’” he said, according to the transcript of one of his interrogation sessions. “So we’re standing in the desert and thought to ourselves, ‘What’s going on?’” When the two Germans looked more closely, they realized there were cavelike dwellings around them. Everything above ground was painted with mud so as to be invisible to drones.
“Showering was prohibited. Eating was prohibited, too, unless they gave it to you,” Mr. Sarfo said, adding that he had shared a cave with five or six others. Even drinking water was harshly rationed. “Each dwelling received two cups of water a day, put on the doorstep,” he said. “And the purpose of this was to test us, see who really wants it, who’s firm.”
The grueling training began: hours of running, jumping, push-ups, parallel bars, crawling. The recruits began fainting.
By the second week, they were each given a Kalashnikov assault rifle and told to sleep with it between their legs until it became “like a third arm,” he said, according to his interrogation transcript.
The punishment for failing to keep up was harsh. “There was one boy who refused to get up, because he was just too exhausted,” Mr. Sarfo told the authorities. “So they tied him to a pole with his legs and his arms and left him there.”
He learned that the special forces program involved 10 levels of training. After he graduated to Level 2, he was moved to an island on a river in Tabqa, Syria. The recruits’ sleeping spots now consisted of holes in the ground, covered by sticks and twigs. They practiced swimming, scuba diving and navigating by the stars.
Throughout his training, Mr. Sarfo rubbed shoulders with an international cadre of recruits. When he first arrived at the desert campus, he ran laps alongside Moroccans, Egyptians, at least one Indonesian, a Canadian and a Belgian. And out on the island, he learned of similar special units, including one called Jaysh al-Khalifa, or the Army of the Caliphate.
A 12-page criminal complaint indicates that the Islamic State tried to recruit at least one American into that unit, but he declined to enroll.
The man, Mohamad Jamal Khweis, a 26-year-old from Alexandria, Va., traveled to Syria in December, only to be captured by Kurdish troops in Iraq in March. In his debriefing with the F.B.I., he explained that early on, he was approached by members of the unit. “During his stay at this safe house, representatives from Jaysh Khalifa, a group described by the defendant as an ‘offensive group,’ visited the new ISIL recruits,” the complaint says. “The representatives explained that their group was responsible for accepting volunteers from foreign countries who would be trained and sent back to their countries to conduct operations and execute attacks on behalf of ISIL. The group’s requirements, among other things, were that recruits had to be single, would train in remote locations, must be free of any injuries and had to stay reclusive when returning to their home countries.”
As he progressed through the special forces training, Mr. Sarfo became closer with the emir of the camp, a Moroccan, who began to divulge details about how the Islamic State’s external operations effort was structured, he said. Mr. Sarfo learned that there was one outsize figure behind the group’s strategies and ambitions. “The big man behind everything is Abu Muhammad al-Adnani,” he said.
“He is the head of the Emni, and he is the head of the special forces as well,” Mr. Sarfo added. “Everything goes back to him.”
Born in the town of Binnish in northern Syria, Mr. Adnani is said to be 39, and is the subject of a $5 million bounty from the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program. But details about his life remain a mystery. There are very few available photos of him, and the one used on the State Department’s website is years old.
Mr. Sarfo explained that when recruits to the special forces finished all 10 levels of training, they were blindfolded and driven to meet Mr. Adnani, where they pledged allegiance to him directly. Mr. Sarfo was told that the blindfolds stayed on the whole time, so that even Mr. Adnani’s best-trained fighters never know what he looks like.
To the world, Mr. Adnani is better known as the official spokesman of the Islamic State, and the man who put out a global call this year for Muslims to attack unbelievers wherever they were, however they could.
“Adnani is much more than just the mouthpiece of this group,” said Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington who tracks the group’s leadership. “He is heavily involved in external operations. He is sort of the administrative ‘yea’ or ‘nay’ at the top of the pyramid,” who signs off on attack plans, the details of which are handled by his subordinates.
During his time in Syria, Mr. Sarfo was contacted by other German fighters who wanted him to be an actor in a propaganda film aimed at German speakers. They drove to Palmyra, and Mr. Sarfo was told to hold the group’s black flag and to walk again and again in front of the camera as they filmed repeated takes. Syrian captives were forced to kneel, and the other German fighters shot them, showing an interest only in the cinematic effect.
One turned to Mr. Sarfo immediately after killing a victim and asked: “How did I look like? Did I look good, the way I executed?”
Mr. Sarfo said he had learned that videos like the one he acted in were vetted by Mr. Adnani himself in a monthly meeting of senior operatives.
“There’s a vetting procedure,” he said. “Once a month they have a shura — which is a sitting, a meeting — where all the videos and everything that is important, they start speaking about it. And Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is the head of the shura.”
Mr. Sarfo said he had started doubting his allegiance to ISIS during his training, after seeing how cruelly they treated those who could not keep up. Making the propaganda video provided his final disillusionment when he saw how many times they recorded each scene in the five-minute film. Back in Germany, when he had been inspired by similar videos, he had always assumed they were real, not staged.
He began plotting his escape, which took weeks and involved sprinting and crawling in a field of mud before crossing into Turkey. He was arrested at Bremen Airport, where he landed on July 20, 2015, and he voluntarily confessed. He is now serving a three-year term on terrorism charges.
Among the Islamic State’s innovations is the role of foreigners, especially Europeans, in the planning of attacks.
Mr. Sarfo’s account agrees with investigation documents and the assessments of terrorism experts, who say that French and Belgian citizens like Mr. Abaaoud are more than just operatives and have been given managing roles.
“It’s a creative and interesting operational road map, to be able to lean on someone like Abaaoud, who has his own network abroad,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, chairman of the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism in Paris. “They gave him the autonomy regarding tactics and strategy, even if the operation as a whole still needs a green light from the Islamic State’s leadership.”
Looking at the current leaders of the Emni, investigators have homed in on two in particular. They go by the aliases Abu Souleymane, a French citizen, and Abu Ahmad, described as Syrian. Both are considered top lieutenants of Mr. Adnani, according to the senior American defense official and senior intelligence official.
The two men play a direct role in identifying fighters to be sent overseas, in choosing targets and in organizing logistics for operatives, including paying for smugglers to get them to Europe and, in at least one case, sending Western Union transfers, according to European intelligence documents.
A glimpse into the possible role of Abu Souleymane came from one of the hostages held by suicide bombers inside the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November.
After gunning down dozens of concertgoers, two of the suicide bombers retreated into a hallway with a group of hostages, forcing them to sit against the windows as human shields, said the hostage, David Fritz-Goeppinger, 24. In the two-and-a-half-hour standoff that ensued, Mr. Fritz heard one of the bombers ask the other, “Should we call Souleymane?”
The second operative appeared annoyed that the first had asked the question in French, and ordered him to switch to Arabic.
“I immediately understood that, yes, this was the individual, maybe not the individual who had organized the attack, but who held a place in the hierarchy above them,” Mr. Fritz said in a telephone interview. His testimony is also included in a detailed, 51-page report by France’s antiterrorism police. “They were absolutely, like soldiers,” awaiting orders, he said.
Souleymane, whose full nom de guerre is Abu Souleymane al-Faransi, or Abu Souleymane the Frenchman, is believed to be a French national in his 30s who is of either Moroccan or Tunisian ancestry, according to Ludovico Carlino, a senior analyst with IHS Conflict Monitor in London. Mr. Carlino says he believes that Souleymane was promoted to be the top terrorism planner for Europe after Mr. Abaaoud’s death.
A snapshot of the other senior leader, Abu Ahmad, appears in the account of a man who investigators have concluded was supposed to be part of the team of Paris attackers: an Algerian named Adel Haddadi. Mr. Haddadi said he and another member of the team, a former Lashkar-e-Taiba member from Pakistan named Muhammad Usman, were separated from two other attackers after they reached Greece by boat.
Mr. Haddadi, 28, and Mr. Usman, 22, were eventually arrested in a migrant camp in Salzburg, Austria. The two men sent alongside them became the first suicide bombers to detonate their vests outside the Stade de France during the November attacks.
After arriving in Syria and being routed to the international dormitory there in February 2015, Mr. Haddadi worked as a cook in Raqqa for months before a member of the Emni came to see him, according to French and Austrian investigation documents.
“One day, a Syrian came into the kitchen to see me and said that someone called Abu Ahmad wanted to see me,” Mr. Haddadi was quoted as saying in the Austrian record of his interrogation. He was driven to a five-story building, where another Syrian holding a walkie talkie radioed Abu Ahmad. They waited for hours before the Syrian got orders to drive the recruit to the next location. In the street, a Saudi man wearing all white was waiting, and asked Mr. Haddadi to go on a walk.
After 300 yards, they reached an empty apartment building and sat down. “I was scared, I wanted to leave, but he talked the whole time,” Mr. Haddadi told the authorities.
“He said only positive things about me, that Daesh trusted me and that I now needed to prove myself worthy of that trust. He said that Daesh was going to send me to France,” Mr. Haddadi added, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “The details, he said, I would get them once I arrived in France.”
Sometime after that, Abu Ahmad arrived. Mr. Haddadi described him as a Syrian man between 38 and 42 years old, slim with a long, black beard, and dressed all in black. He was, Mr. Haddadi said, “the giver of orders.”
Abu Ahmad brought Mr. Haddadi together with three other potential attackers, with the last man, Mr. Usman, being introduced just a day before they all set out for Europe. Mr. Haddadi and two of the other men were native Arabic speakers, and Mr. Usman spoke enough Arabic to communicate with them, the interrogation documents said.
The day of their departure, Abu Ahmad came and gave them his Turkish cellphone number, instructing them to store it in their phone as “FF,” to avoid registering a name. He gave Mr. Haddadi $2,000 in $100 bills, and they were driven to the Turkish border. A man met them in Turkey to take their photographs, and returned with Syrian passports. Another smuggler arranged their Oct. 3 boat trip to Leros, Greece.
All of these logistical steps, as well as Western Union money transfers, were organized by Abu Ahmad, one of the senior lieutenants running the Islamic State’s efforts to export terror. Until his arrest in December, Mr. Haddadi remained in touch with Abu Ahmad through messages on Telegram and via text messages to his Turkish number, according to the investigation record.
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HSA: Health Savings Account. Think of it as a 401(k) for health care. An individual sets aside money, pretax, in a special bank account that can be used for medical expenses. Companies often make contributions to the account. HSAs are portable, meaning they can be taken with the employee when they leave a company. If used correctly, HSAs help lower taxes three ways: The contributions reduce your taxable income, gains from the invested money are tax free, as are withdrawals for eligible expenses.
HRA: Health Reimbursement Arrangement. A company sets aside money to pay for an employee’s eligible expenses. While some plans allow an employee to roll over the balance year to year, an employee cannot contribute to the account and the money is typically not portable. Expenses reimbursed by the employer are considered tax free for the employee.
FSA:Flexible Spending Account. An employee sets aside pretax dollars in an employer-sponsored account to pay for health expenses. An employee must use all the money in his or her account during the coverage period or forfeit leftover money. FSAs also exist for mass transit costs and child-care expenses.
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Nowadays family pictures, writings and home movies are stored on digital media, under the impression that this personal information will be accessible for a lifetime. However, this is not self-evident.
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Rates of thyroid disease are similar in HIV-positive patients and the general population, according to a large British study published in the January edition of HIV Medicine. The study's authors, from London's Royal Free Hospital, therefore believe that HIV-positive patients do not require thyroid screens as part of their routine HIV care.
HIV infection and treatment with potent antiretroviral therapy have been linked with various hormonal abnormalities, including diabetes and osteoporosis. Recently, some (but not all) studies have suggested a possible link between HIV infection and its treatment with thyroid disease, which can include underactivity (hypothyroidism) and overactivity (hyperthyroidism or thyrotoxicosis).
AdvertisementTo clarify further the relationships between thyroid disease, HIV infection and potent anti-HIV therapy, a team at the Royal Free Hospital, London, examined previous thyroid function test results of 1,565 of their patients, 58% of whom were taking anti-HIV treatment.
A total of 39 individuals (2.5%) were found to have overt hypothyroidism and 61 (4%) had subclinical hypothyroidism. Eight people (<1%) had overt hyperthyroidism, five (<1%) had subclinical hyperthyroidism, and 263 (17%) had a non-thyroidal illness that had caused some changes to their thyroid function tests. Repeated measurements were available over three years for 825 patients and only eight new cases of overt thyroid disease occurred. During this period, only one of the group started anti-HIV therapy.
Although patients with overt hypothyroidism tended to be women and older, these associations also hold for the general population. Further analysis found that overt hypothyroidism was also linked with heterosexual risk, use of potent anti-HIV therapy, an AIDS diagnosis, and lower CD4 counts. However, multivariate analysis indicated that the links with markers of progressed disease (AIDS diagnosis and lower CD4 cell counts) were explained by the associations with gender and risk group. Thus, they did not detect any variables that were significantly and independently associated with hypothyroidism.
"There is no clear evidence that either subclinical hypothyroidism or subclinical hyperthyroidism should be treated. Recommendations in current guidelines are not to treat, and therefore the value of identifying subclinical disease that progresses slowly (if at all) to a clinical disease is questionable," the authors write.
Further, the team suggests that, until the results of larger studies are available, "it is wise to be cautious before drawing conclusions regarding thyroid dysfunction and HIV . . . However, our study implies that the prevalence of overt thyroid disease is likely to be similar to that observed in HIV-negative populations and that routine screening of this specific population is not necessary, especially given that patients with overt clinical disease do present clinically and that [thyroid function tests] are a test clinicians have a low threshold for performing."
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These are exciting times for the diabetic foot. Major advances have taken place in the last decade and these have led to improved outcomes in ulcer healing and a reduced number of amputations (Edmonds, 1999). Early recognition of the at-risk foot, the prompt institution of preventive measures, and the provision of rapid and intensive treatment of foot infection in multidisciplinary foot clinics can reduce the number of amputations in patients with diabetes.
However, despite these advances, soft tissue and bone infection of the lower limbs is the most common indication for hospital admission in patients with diabetes mellitus. Furthermore, lower limb amputations, which frequently follow uncontrolled bacterial infection in these patients, account for 50% of all non-traumatic lower limb amputations (Grayson, 1995). If this situation is to be remedied, the role of infection in the natural history of the diabetic foot must be understood so that treatment can be given at an appropriately early time.
Role of neuropathy, ischaemia and infection
The feet are the target of peripheral neuropathy leading chiefly to sensory deficits and autonomic dysfunction.
Ischaemia results from atherosclerosis of the leg vessels, which in the patient with diabetes, is often bilateral, multisegmental and distal, involving arteries below the knee.
Infection is rarely the sole factor, but often complicates neuropathy and ischaemia. Nevertheless, it is responsible for considerable tissue necrosis in the diabetic foot. It is important to understand that tissue necrosis is rarely caused by an occlusive microangiopathy; more commonly, the cause is neutrophilic vasculitis secondary to soft tissue infection. Even in the neuroischaemic foot, neutrophilic vasculitis is often the main causative factor of tissue necrosis, although atherosclerotic large vessel disease may contribute. It is thus important to diagnose infection early and treat aggressively with antibiotics. The important question is what constitutes infection?
Definition of infection
Infection has been defined as the product of the entrance, growth, metabolic activities and resultant pathophysiological effects of microorganisms in the tissues of the patient (American College of Surgeons, 1976). From a practical point of view, infection is both a clinical and microbiological diagnosis.
Clinical diagnosis of infection
The clinical diagnosis of infection depends on the presence of purulent discharge from the ulcer, on the classic signs of inflammation around the ulcer (notably heat, erythema, oedema and pain) and on the systemic signs of fever and leucocytosis. However, the manifestation of these signs of inflammation is dependent on intact nervous and peripheral vascular systems, both of which can be severely impaired in patients with diabetes, especially those with foot ulcers. Pain and tenderness may be absent because of neuropathy.
The response to injury in skin includes a local vasodilatation mediated by sensory nerve fibres, which are impaired in diabetic neuropathy (Parkhouse and Le Quesne, 1988). This leads to abnormalities in neuro- peptides that play a role in the mediation of skin flare responses, in particular substance P which is a powerful mediator of vascular permeability. Erythema may be absent because of the inability of the foot to increase blood supply in response to infection. An intact tissue responds to bacterial infection by increasing blood flow more than 20-fold in the area around the infection. Furthermore, it is now established that up to 50% of patients with deep foot infection will not have leucocytosis or fever (Eneroth et al, 1997).
Trust in clinical signs alone can therefore lead to a significantly delayed diagnosis of the initial stages of infection.
In view of the unreliability of clinical signs of infection, it is important to pay special attention to the microbiological diagnosis of infection. However, there is considerable controversy as to the most useful techniques for obtaining cultures, and much discussion on the interpretation of results. Isolation of bacteria from an ulcer may indicate either colonisation (when organisms multiply on the surface of the wound) or invasive infection (when the organisms are actively penetrating the soft tissues around the ulcer).
A major advance in the management of wound infection has been the discovery that the presence of organisms in a wound is less important than the level of bacterial growth. Considerable data have shown that a level of growth >100000 organisms per gram of tissue is necessary to cause wound infection and to allow for invasive sepsis for most types of bacteria (Robson, 1997). However, standard techniques of quantitative microbiology have not yet been generally established.
The importance of the numerical level of bacteria was first suggested by French army surgeons during the First World War. Subsequently, many studies from the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research have established that invasive burn wound sepsis is associated with a bacterial level of >100000/g (Robson, 1997). Krizek et al (1967) demonstrated the quantitative relationship between bacteria and skin graft survival in humans. Although all wounds were grafted purely on clinical grounds, when the bacterial counts were reviewed, the average graft survival was found to be 94% when the count was 100000 bacteria per gram of tissue, but only 19% when the bacterial count was >100000/g tissue. With regard to decubitus ulcers, healing only occurred when bacterial counts were <100000/ml. Furthermore, despite the healthy appearance of the wound, healing did not occur if the bacterial count was >100000/ml.
In a recent study (reported by Gary Sibbald’s group at the 1999 European Tissue Repair Society meeting in Bordeaux) eight patients with diabetic foot ulcers >1cm2 had 3mm tissue biopsies of the ulcer base taken for quantitative bacteriology. Quantitative bacterial counts and organism identification were determined after 36–48 hours incubation. In this study, six out of eight patients had 10000 organisms colony-forming units per gram tissue, despite the absence of clinical signs of infection. The authors have since changed their clinical practice: all diabetic foot ulcers are now assessed with quantitative skin biopsies prior to the application of skin substitutes and growth factors. A repeat biopsy following treatment with a combination of antibiotics is carried out to confirm decreased bacterial burden.
Thus, quantitative bacterial tissue cultures enable differentiation between a colonised and an infected ulcer. However, techniques of quantitative microbiology are not generally available, and therefore conventional methods must be considered. Curettage of the base of ulcers and deep tissue cultures are reported as the most reliable (Gentry, 1993), but it is difficult to obtain repeated outpatient specimens by such methods. In real life, a deep swab taken from the base of the ulcer after a good podiatric debridement should suffice.
A positive culture obviously indicates the presence of organisms. However, in the absence of quantitative microbiology, it is difficult to be sure of their true significance. Even bacteria regarded as normal flora or skin commensals may cause severe tissue damage. This includes Gram-negative organisms such as Citrobacter, Serratia, Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter. When Gram-negative bacteria are isolated from an ulcer swab, they should not be regarded as automatically insignificant. Antibiotics should generally be prescribed for positive cultures from diabetic feet, and much more readily for the neuroischaemic foot where untreated infection often leads rapidly to necrosis and major amputation.
What then is the evidence for the use of antibiotics in the treatment of uncomplicated, clinically uninfected foot ulcers which may have positive cultures?
Antibiotic treatment of non-infected ulcers
Chantelau et al (1996) found no advantage from Augmentin (co-amoxiclav) as a supplement to standard therapy in uncompl icated ulcers. However, only neuropathic ulcers were treated and, a type 2 statistical error could not be ruled out.
In a recent investigation, we studied patients with new foot ulcers, including both neuropathic and neuroischaemic ulcers, and no clinical evidence of infection. A total of 64 such patients, who consecutively presented to the foot clinic, were randomised into two groups: 32 patients received oral antibiotic treatment and 32 patients did not. All patients received standard foot care and education with follow-up in the foot clinic. Ulcer swabs were taken on admission to the study and at 2-weekly intervals.
In the non-antibiotic group, 15 patients developed clinical infection, compared with none in the antibiotic group (P<0.001). Seven patients in the non-antibiotic group needed hospital admission and three patients received an amputation (one major and two minor). No patients in the antibiotic group were admitted (P<0.01). Seventeen patients healed in the non-antibiotic group, compared with 27 in the antibiotic group (P<0.02).
A comparison between patients in the non-antibiotic group who developed or did not develop clinical infection found a different distribution of neuropathic to neuroischaemic ulcers: of the 15 who developed clinical infection, 7 had neuropathic ulcers and 8 had neuroischaemic ulcers; of 17 who did not develop clinical infection, 13 had neuropathic ulcers and 4 had neuroischaemic ulcers (P<0.05).
Furthermore, 11 of the 15 patients who developed clinical infection had positive ulcer swabs, compared with only one positIve swab in the 17 patients who did not develop clinical infection (P<0.01).
From this study, it was concluded that patients with diabetes and clean ulcers associated with peripheral vascular disease and positive ulcer swabs should be considered for early antibiotic treatment.
Treatment of clean diabetic foot ulcers
Previously, two contrasting views have been put forward regarding antibiotic treatment of the diabetic foot. A ‘right wing’ view is to give antibiotics only in the presence of clinical infection, almost disregarding microbiological diagnosis; the ‘left wing’ view is to give antibiotics freely to all patients with ulcers. The former carries the risk of treating infection too late, with its associated morbidity and even mortality, while the latter obviously carries a risk of inducing antibiotic resistance, which is to be deeply regretted. A middle way is needed, perhaps a little ‘left of centre’.
Antibiotics should generally be prescribed for positive cultures from diabetic foot ulcers, and much more readily for the neuroischaemic foot as untreated infection often leads rapidly to necrosis and major amputation (Edmonds and Foster, 1999).
Thus for the neuropathic ulcer, at the first visit, if there is no cellulitis, discharge or probing to bone (indicative of osteomyelitis), then debridement, cleaning with saline, application of dressing and daily inspections will suffice.
For the neuroischaemic ulcer, at the initial visit, if the ulcer is superficial, oral amoxicillin 500mg tds and flucloxacillin 500mg qds are prescribed (if the patient is penicillin allergic, erythromycin 500mg qds or cephadroxyl 1g bd is prescribed). If the ulcer is deep, extending to the subcutaneous tissue, amoxicillin 500mg tds, flucloxacillin 500 mg qds, trimethoprim 200mg bd and metronidazole 400mg tds are given.
At follow-up the patient is reviewed with the result of the ulcer swab. If the neuropathic ulcer shows no sign of infection and the swab is negative, treatment is continued without antibiotics.
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the recovery of improper overpayments resulting from certain Federally subsidized health insurance.
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A fascinating survey of exceptional American chair design from the early 19th century to the present day
Designed for function, each chair has a story to tell about the history and evolution of American design, art and craftmanship. At the heart of the catalogue is the presentation of 57 chairs from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection of American Art covered in 49 essays, showcasing the beauty of the chairs and their historical context, as well as important social, economic, political and cultural influences. Highlights include designs by John Henry Belter, George Hunzinger, Herter Brothers, Stickley Brothers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Isamu Noguchi, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Gehry, among others.
The chairs are arranged across four broadly chronological sections, from the early 1800s to the Civil War; from Reconstruction through the Gilded Age to the dawn of the 20th Century; from Art Nouveau to postwar Modernism; and finally, from the post-war Space Age to the Digital Age and the contemporary focus on space saving and sustainability. Each section opens with a brief introduction to its key themes.
Brian J. Lang is chief curator and Windgate Foundation Curator of Contemporary Craft, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Kelley N. Keator is project editor, The Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation
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- Collector’s Story by Diane DeMell Jacobsen, PhD
- Introduction by Joan Oklevitch
- Catalogue by Brian J. Lang
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2: A Nation Rebuilds: From Ashes to the Gilded Age (1865–1900)
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4: A Nation Matures: From Space Age to Space Saver (1950–Present)
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What’s The Point Of YOUR Money?
People usually assume wealthy people are greedy. But, the truth may shock you! The truth is, money is a tool and today you’ll discover how to use this tool properly…and actually attract MORE of it!
Over and over again, the Bible tells us to ask. But after you ASK, do you know how to HEAR? Do you know what God’s voice sounds like? Do you know how to truly listen? This message will teach you how to discern the voice of God and the voice of the enemy.
This is my favorite day of the week, because you and I get to talk about my absolutely favorite topic: God. Last Wednesday, you learned a simple strategy to gain wisdom and knowledge… straight from God’s Word. (If you missed it, go back and read “Got Questions? Ask God!” That message is actually the first part of a series on this topic, so you’ll want to get caught up to be sure you don’t miss anything!)
I recently did a live spiritual Q&A on our TV/radio show, and the list of questions people submitted just blew me away. Almost half of the questions were about how to hear God’s voice.
Over and over again, the Bible tells us to ask.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7)
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” (John 15:7)
“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” (James 1:5)
But after you ASK, do you know how to HEAR? Do you know what God’s voice sounds like? Do you know how to truly listen?
In John 10:27, Jesus says, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
God hears your prayers, and He talks to you. But most people don’t listen. When we don’t hear the answer we want, we go ask someone else, or look for “confirmation.” We look for someone to agree with us. But, that leads to destruction!
While getting to know God’s voice – even when you think you know His voice – it is always good to test and make sure you’re not hearing the other two voices that could be speaking.
The reality is, there are three voices talking to you every day: God’s voice, the enemy’s voice and your own voice. It’s so easy to be deceived into thinking we are hearing God, when in fact, we are listening to the enemy’s voice or even your own. That’s why it is so important to learn how to discern which voice you’re hearing, and to obey God’s voice while blocking the other two.
Today you’re going to learn how to recognize the enemy’s voice.
There is an enemy, and he talks to you. His purpose and his plan is to kill, steal and destroy. He uses intimidation, division, temptation, bondage and lies. But when you know his tactics, it’s EASY to defeat him! The enemy is nothing but a little yappy chihuahua! When you know what his voice sounds like, you start to recognize it. As he whispers lies into your ear, you will be able to say, “Ah, I know what this is! No way, sucker!”
But, God promises us power and authority over the enemy. Luke 10:19 says, “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.”
The enemy also leaves tracks wherever he goes. He leaves his fingerprints all over everything he touches.
In 2004, I had a woman come to me for a coaching appointment. This woman said, “Dani, I don’t know what to do. I’ve been praying and I think I heard the Lord tell me to get a divorce.” I said, “Really? Tell me why.” She said, “Well, it’s nothing against my husband. I love him to pieces. He’s a wonderful man and a beautiful guy. But we’ve had struggles. We don’t hurt each other and we don’t speak ill of each other, but we’ve just lost the love for each other. Not only that, but a man and his wife came to me and said, the Lord told them I was supposed to be his third wife.”
I said, “Third wife? What do you mean by that? Meaning, he’s been married and divorced twice already?” She responded, “Oh, no Dani. All three wives are going to live in the house with him. He said the Lord told him I am supposed to be his third wife. And I am no longer in love with my husband, so I believe the Lord is telling me I am supposed to get a divorce and marry this other man.”
Now, you may be laughing hysterically right now, thinking, “Seriously?!” But let me tell you, we’ve all said things that are just that stupid before. You see, when you don’t know the voice of God, you can be deceived by the enemy. And if you think you can’t be deceived, you are deceived already!
Everything she said went against the Word of God. The enemy’s tracks were all over this situation! But she had been seduced into believing the lies of the enemy and could not recognize his voice. Listening to, and obeying, the enemy’s voice will always lead to division and destruction.
Jesus tells us we are to stand up to Satan’s lies, not bow down to them. Satan hates healthy relationships, healthy finances and healthy bodies.
There is an easy way to see if you are listening to the enemy’s voice or if you’re truly hearing God. Look at the fruit in the situation. Is there seduction, division or destruction? Are people getting hurt? Is there greed involved? Are you making a move strictly better for you, but hurts the people around you?
If that’s the case, there’s a good chance you’re listening to the wrong voice!
This week, really pay attention to those voices. Ask yourself those questions, and evaluate the different situations in your life right now. Take some time to journal about those situations. Ask God to show you where you have listened to and followed the enemy.
Remember, God has given you power through Jesus the Messiah to tread on serpents and scorpions and to defeat the power of the enemy. God Almighty is infinitely stronger than that yappy chihuahua of an enemy!
Check back here on Wednesday, for the next message in this series. Today, you saw how to identify and defeat the voice of the enemy. Next week, you’re going to learn how to recognize one that’s even sneakier and more deceptive – your own voice.
In the meantime, I would love to know your thoughts about today’s message, so leave me your comments below, and then be sure to share this message with your friends and family!
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Tis the season for snow and ice – only fun if you’re a penguin or like to walk with an ice pick. For the rest of us, the big challenge is dealing with frozen precipitation once it hits the ground, especially if we want to be ‘eco friendly.’ These green tips to de-ice your driveway will help.
What’s wrong with rock salt? Many consumers use rock salt to clear a path through the snow around their homes. But this is not ideal for the planet.
* Excess salts build up in the soil, just as they do with chemical fertilizers.
* Salt residue prevents plants from absorbing moisture and nutrients.
* Salts can leach heavy metals, which eventually make their way into water supplies.
* Salt on grass or sidewalks close to roads can attract animals, which may be hit by cars if they’re licking the salt from the ground.
* Plus, salt can burn our pets if it lodges in their paws.
Yes, salt does effectively melt snow. But is there a better way?
Top Ten Green Tips to De-Ice Your Driveway
• If you prefer to use a snow blower, get a battery-powered model. Gas-powered blowers generate a lot more air and noise pollution. An electric blower might work, but the cord will probably get buried in snow as you plow.
• Try a “snow melt mat.” If you’re installing a new driveway or replacing an old one, lay down electric wires to heat the driveway from below and radiate heat upwards. Yes, you pay for electricity, so it’s not as “eco” as shoveling by hand. On the other hand, it may be better than using chemicals that pollute the water and endanger plants and pets. It would cost someone living in the Washington, DC area (where I live) about $14 in electricity each time the system was used – though that doesn’t include the cost of installing the system. Electricity costs will vary by region. (NOTE: I’m not recommending you tear up a perfectly good driveway to put in a snow melt system!)
• Scatter sand or even birdseed for traction. The grains won’t melt snow or ice, but they will give you more grip on icy surfaces.
• Scrimp on the de-icer. Remember, the job of a de-icer is to loosen ice from below to make it easier to shovel or plow. Don’t pile on the de-icer thinking you’ll remove the ice completely. You won’t. The recommended application rate for rock salt is around a handful per square yard you treat. Calcium chloride will treat about 3 square yards per handful.
• Pick your salt carefully. If you do use salt, choose wisely. Sodium chloride (NaCL) may contain cyanide. Calcium chloride (CaCl) is slightly better since less goes farther, but it is still not ideal, since its run-off still increases algae growth, which clogs waterways. Potassium chloride is another salt to avoid. • Whatever you use, keep it away from landscape plants, especially those that are particularly salt-sensitive, like tulip poplars, maples, balsam firs, white pines, hemlock, Norway spruce, dogwood, redbud, rose bushes and spirea bushes.
• Skip the kitty litter or wood ashes. Neither melts snow and ice, and they have a tendency to get messy when it warms up.
• Avoid products that contain nitrogen-based urea. They’re more expensive and are not effective once the temperature drops below 20°F. Plus, the application rate for urea during a single deicing is ten times greater than that needed to fertilize the same area of your yard. Remember that the urea you apply to the ground will eventually run off into the street, down the drain, and into lakes and streams.
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Updated: July 12, 2014
The situation you are facing is as follows. You are a Linux user, and VLC is your media player of choice. Most of the time, you install software from official repositories without any problems. But sometimes, you use distributions that do not ship with VLC, and you must use additional third-party sources. Then, you install VLC from yonder, and try to play your content.
You get the following error: 'No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "VP80". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.' Oh-oh, sounds ominous, what now? Let me show you.
The reason why you are seeing this ugly and misleading error is most likely because you have broken or incompatible media codecs installed, which do not cooperate well with the version of VLC that you have chosen. Plain and simple.
This can happen if you use multiple external, third-party repositories, all of which provide the same content. Then, when installing packages, there might be contention, and some of the packages may be installed from one source, and others from another, resulting in a conflict and mismatch, making your media player borked.
I have highlighted this issue on numerous occasions before, and the time has not chipped the importance thereof. Please consult my rather nice Fedora and openSUSE pimping guides for more details. Then, please take a look at my Scientific Linux repository management tutorial. All of these articles highlight the important of using third-party repositories sparingly, and if you must have multiple sources that provide the same content, then you should use repository priorities to remove the possible conflicts. A plethora of screenshots:
Specifically for VLC, from the command line, it may look thusly. Your package manager will most likely ask you to choose one of several options to resolve the conflict. In general, try to stick with a single repository for all your choices.
Problem: vlc-2.1.1-185.4.x86_64 requires vlc-noX = 2.1.1-185.4, but this requirement cannot be provided
uninstallable providers: vlc-noX-2.1.1-185.4.i586[ftp.gwdg.de-suse]
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
install vlc-noX-2.1.1-185.4.x86_64 (with vendor change)
openSUSE --> http://packman.links2linux.de
install vlc-noX-lang-2.1.1-185.4.noarch (with vendor change)
openSUSE --> http://packman.links2linux.de
Solution 2: do not install vlc-2.1.1-185.4.x86_64
Solution 3: do not install vlc-2.1.1-185.4.x86_64
Solution 4: break vlc-2.1.1-185.4.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
After you make your decision, the package manager will inform you of the changes it's making, and then it will add and remove software as needed to try to accommodate your ambiguity.
The following packages are going to change vendor:
libvlc5 openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
libvlccore7 openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
vlc-noX openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
vlc-noX-lang openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
vlc-qt openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
And the end result is a media player that doesn't play - sad, no:
Reading the logs may help, but not by much really. The only sensible way to fix this thing is to sort out the repository conflicts, purge the affected versions of binaries and libraries, disable and prioritize the repositories so that you get no further conflicts, and only then, reinstall VLC. This is the correct order of actions.
If and when you encounter a problem, please follow the checklist above. Remove VLC. Open the package manager, either from the command line or GUI, and remove all the repositories that provide the extra content. Alternatively, prioritize them so that your preferred choice is used first. This will help avoid the conflicts, although you'd best use just a single third-party resource.
I have repeated some of the steps outlined in the openSUSE article, so if you've read that one, you may find this article unneeded. True in a sense. But still, this guide is very important, especially for those prone to tinker. Your instinctive reaction might be to recompile everything and try to fix something by brute force.
In this particular case, the real solution is to see the bigger picture. The codecs, the plugins and VLC itself are all fine, and it is important to remember that. It's just that wrong versions are bundled together. Everything goes back to normal once the lack of compatibility is resolved. In other words, always proceed cautiously, do not overdo it, do not force it, and avoid approving dangerous warnings that could lead to a serious corruption of your system. Best of all, VLC will play just fine once again. | <urn:uuid:7146a108-d910-4e05-8299-80e53f4763dd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/vlc-codec-errors.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00118-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881769 | 1,146 | 2.25 | 2 |
The Klingons have undergone several, distinct changes since the species was introduced in “Star Trek: The Original Series.” StarTrek.com once called the changes to the Klingons’ appearance, “the single most popular topic of conversation among ‘Star Trek’ fans.”
Though the main reason behind these changes was advancements in makeup and prosthetic production and application, the writers behind the franchise have gone to great lengths to explain the appearance changes through additions to the canon. Each Klingon face was designed for specific behind-the-scenes and in-story reasons, though some of those in-story reasons weren’t explained until years later.
Here are the stories behind each of the Klingon faces.
‘The Original Series’ Klingons
When the Klingons were first introduced in the episode “Errand of Mercy,” writer Gene L. Coon had a very specific idea of what the species represented. He set out to create a purely evil enemy for the crew of the Enterprise. According to Memory Alpha, since the series was in development during the Cold War, the Klingons became an allegory for the Soviet Union. In his script for “Errand of Mercy,” Coon simply described the Klingons as “Orientals.” He gave no other notes about their appearance.
According to Captains’ Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, the first actor to play a Klingon devised how they should look. When John Colicos — who played Kor in multiple “Star Trek” series — showed up in the makeup department on his first day of filming, the lead makeup designer, Fred Phillips, asked him how he wanted the Klingons to look. Colicos responded that he saw the Klingons as a stand-in for the Soviets and suggested that he look vaguely like Genghis Khan. He envisioned Kor as a vicious, brilliant military leader, so the parallels to Khan were strong.
Phillips and Colicos decided to give the Klingons black hair, dark skin, and a Fu Manchu mustache. Colicos also suggested a slightly green tinge to the skin color to imply that his character was, in fact, an alien, not just a Soviet villain.
TOS Movie Klingons
The Klingons underwent a complete redesign for the first TOS movie, “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” According to “The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” costume designer Robert Fletcher worked closely with Phillips, who returned as the lead makeup designer, to develop the Klingons’ new look.
Fletcher and Phillips came up with the distinctive forehead ridges which have come to define the Klingons. They were inspired by an alien species Gene Roddenberry had developed for a previous television pilot, “Planet Earth.” The Kreegs were a dark-skinned warrior species, like the Klingons, and they had a bony ridge down the middle of their foreheads. Fletcher and Phillips embellished these ridges for the Klingons in “The Motion Picture.”
In an interview on The Captain Logan Show in 2017, Fletcher said that he was also inspired by the exoskeletons on lobsters. He imagined the Klingons as having a rigid exoskeleton. His notes, excerpts of which were included in “The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” indicated that Fletcher envisioned the forehead ridges as an external extension of the Klingons’ spinal column. He also noted that their long hair should cover parts of the extended spinal column.
According to “Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook,” makeup and prosthetics had advanced quite a bit by the time “The Motion Picture” started production. The makeup department’s budget was also much higher than it had been for the series. These factors made the forehead ridges envisioned by Fletcher and Phillips possible. Rick Stratton, Mark Seigel, and Mike LaValley sculpted the forehead prosthetics by making molds of the actors’ foreheads and sculpting the ridges on top of the mold.
When the movie came out, fans were stunned by the drastically different look of the Klingons. According to “Star Trek Chronology” Phillips explained that he’d always wanted the Klingons to look this way, but he’d never had the budget.
As for an in-story explanation for the change, Roddenberry and Phillips joked that there were “Northern Klingons” and “Southern Klingons.” A serious in-story explanation wouldn’t come until “Star Trek: Enterprise.”
“The Next Generation” & “Deep Space Nine” Klingons
Almost a decade after “The Motion Picture,” Trek came back to the small screen. “Star Trek: The Next Generation” premiered in 1987 and became the first Trek show or movie to feature a Klingon Starfleet officer. Worf started as a tactical officer on the bridge of the Enterprise and soon became the ship’s chief of security. Worf looked much like the Klingons from the “Star Trek” movies, though there were a few notable changes.
Expert makeup designer Michael Westmore remade the Klingons for TNG. In his book “Star Trek Aliens & Artifacts,” Westmore wrote that he wanted to expand on the Klingons from the “Star Trek” movies. Instead of being inspired by lobster exoskeletons as Phillips had been, Westmore drew his inspiration from dinosaur vertebrae. He stated that each of the forehead ridge prosthetics he designed was based on a specific dinosaur spinal column.
Because the Klingons from TOS looked so human, Westmore wanted his Klingons to look especially alien. To this end, he added distinct ridges to the bridge of the Klingon nose and created sharp, craggy dentures for each Klingon actor. Westmore arguably achieved his goal, creating Klingons that looked more alien than ever before.
As more Klingons were introduced in TNG, Westmore came up with the idea that each Klingon family should have distinctly different forehead ridges, implying the shape of the ridges was genetic. Westmore designed markedly different prosthetics for each of the recurring Klingons.
The Klingon makeup continued to evolve for “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” Though the overall look remained the same, more recurring Klingon characters meant adding more variability to the basic design. Again, Westmore and his team created specific forehead ridges for each recurring character. They also changed up the hairstyles and facial hair for each recurring Klingon.
The look that Westmore created for the Klingons in TNG and tweaked for DS9 remained the iconic Klingon look until “Star Trek: Discovery” premiered in 2017.
The Augment Klingons
Though “Enterprise” took place a century before TOS, most of the Klingons in the show looked like TNG and DS9 Klingons, not TOS Klingons. In an interview with “Star Trek Communicator,” writer Michael Sussman acknowledged that the show had some explaining to do on the topic of the Klingons.
Though the decision to have them look like TNG/DS9 Klingons rather than TOS Klingons was simply a behind-the-scenes, aesthetic choice, “Enterprise’s” place in the Trek timeline meant the writers would have to give an in-story reason why this choice was made.
However, the show didn’t offer that explanation until the last season. Early in the season, the writers introduced the Augments storyline, a prequel to TOS’s “Space Seed” storyline. Two episodes further along in the season, “Affliction” and “Divergence” revealed that the Klingons had launched their own Augment project.
Unfortunately, the project was a disaster. The Klingon DNA didn’t mix well with the Augment DNA and the Klingons began to morph. Many of them lost their forehead and nose ridges, making them look more human. Ultimately, the early test subjects died because the Augment DNA was incompatible with Klingon DNA.
The Klingon scientists working on the project tried to synthesize more compatible DNA. However, one of the scientists was infected with a virus, which got incorporated into the Augment DNA. It became a deadly virus itself. Millions of Klingons were infected with the Augment DNA virus and died. The ones that survived developed human characteristics, creating an entire subspecies of Augment Klingons.
According to the canon created by “Enterprise,” Klingons had always looked the way they did in TNG and DS9. The Klingons Captain Kirk and his crew encountered in TOS were Augments, not traditional Klingons.
Before “Discovery” even premiered, fans got a peek at the new Klingons at the center of the show. They were stunned by the massive changes. The Klingons presented by the new series were unrecognizable, and many fans were incredibly upset.
“Discovery’s” Klingons were hairless, with forehead ridges that went over the top of their heads and down their necks. Their noses were much wider and many of them lacked the distinctive ridges on the bridge of the nose that had come to define the Klingon look.
“Discovery’s” showrunners and actors vehemently defended the redesign, citing the canon-based reasons for the changes. They said that the Klingons had always had ridges over the top of their head and down their neck, but their hair had covered them. This claim was supported by Phillips’ own notes on the Klingons he developed for “The Motion Picture.”
The showrunners also explained that these Klingons had been separated from their homeworld for centuries. So, they adhered to different traditions, like shaving their heads during wartime. Additionally, they implied that these Klingons had evolved differently due to their separation from the rest of their Klingon kin.
In short, there are three distinct types of Klingons: traditional Klingons, Augments, and “Discovery” Klingons. The Klingons have always looked like the Klingons fans recognize from TNG and DS9, but Klingon historical events — the Augment virus and the separation of the “Discovery” Klingons — created two distinct subspecies of Klingons. These subspecies explain why the Klingons in TOS and “Discovery” look so different.
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The Tamil Refugee Council today again criticized the federal government’s immigration laws, following the failure of a Tamil family’s Federal Circuit Court appeal to be granted the right to stay in Australia.
Priya, her husband Nades and their two daughters – aged 1 and 3, born in Australia – have now spent more than 100 days detained at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation in Broadmeadows.
“If this family fails to meet the requirements for protection visas under Australian law, then the law is clearly broken”, Ben Hillier, Tamil Refugee Council spokesperson said.
“The Department of Home Affairs is overseeing a labyrinthine system designed to make it next to impossible for many people to claim asylum.
“The government is burying human rights under pages and pages of bureaucratic procedures and legalese. When will it stop?”
Priya and her family fled Sri Lanka in 2000. Nades faces persecution for his former association with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which was militarily defeated by the Sri Lankan armed forces in 2009.
Their daughters were born in Australia and do not hold Sri Lankan citizenship, yet they now face the prospect of being deported to that country if their family’s case is not reviewed.
The Tamil Refugee Council is calling on the Australian government to return Priya, Nades and their daughters, to their home in Biloela, and to give them permanent protection so they can continue building their lives in peace.
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Images made by NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed two distant cosmic construction sites buzzing with activity. This discovery shows how super massive black holes control the growth of massive galaxies in the distant universe.
Chandra images of galaxies 4C41.17 and 3C294 (4C41.17: NASA/CXC/Columbia/C. Scharf et al. 3C294: NASA/CXC/IoA/A. Fabian et al.)
X-rays were detected from vast clouds of high-energy particles around the galaxies 3C294 and 4C41.17, which are 10 and 12 billion light years from Earth, respectively. The energetic particles were left over from past explosive events that can be traced through the X-ray and radio jets back to the super massive black holes located in the centers of the galaxies.
"These galaxies are revealing an energetic phase in which a super massive black hole transfers considerable energy into the gas surrounding the galaxies," said Andrew Fabian of Englands Cambridge University, lead author of a paper on 3C294 to appear in an upcoming issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "This appears to be crucial in explaining the puzzling properties of present-day galaxies, especially those that group together in large clusters," he said.
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Methods - Thirty-one male, recreationally active athletes completed four 10 or 20km cycling TTs on different days. During cycling, power output, speed and cadence were recorded at 23 Hz, and heart rate and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) were recorded every km. Multiple statistical methods were used to ensure a comprehensive assessment of reliability. Intraclass correlations, standard error of the measurement, minimum difference required for a worthwhile change and coefficient of variation were determined for completion time and mean trial variables (power output, speed, cadence, heart rate, RPE, session RPE).
Results - A meaningful change in performance for cyclists, runners, team sport athletes would be represented by 7.5, 3.6 and 12.9% improvement for 10km and a 4.9, 4.0 and 5.6% for 20 km completion time. After a familiarisation, a 4.0, 3.7 and 6.4% improvement for 10 km and a 4.1, 3.0 and 4.4% would be required for 20km.
Conclusion - Data from this study suggest not all athletic subgroups require a familiarisation to produce substantially reliable 10 and 20km cycling performance. However, a familiarisation considerably improves the reliability of pacing strategy adopted by recreational runners and team sport athletes across these distances.
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MOLECULE FROM THE SEA KILLS CANCER CELLS
BY BLOCKING FIRST STEP OF PROTEIN BUILDING
--"PatA" is believed to be the first molecule found to do so in human cells
A natural chemical made by a New Zealand sea sponge exerts its deadly effects on cancer cells by preventing the cells' protein-building machinery from turning on, Johns Hopkins scientists report in the Dec. 9 issue of Molecular Cell.
The chemical's anti-cancer effects have been known since 1991, but this is the first comprehensive report to show how the molecule, known as pateamine A (PatA), stalls the growth of so-called eukaryotic cells -- cells that have membranes and a nucleus.
"Agents that interfere with protein production in bacteria are already useful antibiotics, but this is the first small molecule found to interfere specifically with the earliest steps of protein production in human cells," says the study's leader, Jun Liu, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.
Although any clinical applications of PatA or related molecules are likely many years away, Liu notes, PatA's abilities offers investigators the chance to probe the earliest steps in protein production and the biology of so-called "suicide" in human cells.
"The whole idea of chemical biology is that we can use active molecules like PatA as bait to fish out their biological targets, which sheds light on normal biology and can clarify why the molecules' interaction is important," says Liu, whose research has focused on using chemical biology to study the regulation of the immune system. "This is incredibly powerful as scientists begin creating networks, not just linear pathways, of biological understanding."
But to use chemical biology to probe a particular aspect of biology, scientists have to have a small molecule that interferes with it.
"Many molecules are known that interfere with reading, or transcribing, genes' DNA to get RNA," says Liu. "But no one had found a molecule that specifically prevents initiation of the next step, the reading, or translation, of the RNA to build a protein."
In cells from yeast to humans, translating RNA to build a protein is accomplished by complicated machinery called the ribosome, made up of a number of different parts that come and go in order to activate the machinery, turn it off, or move it to the next step.
The very first thing the ribosome must do is identify and latch onto the right spot on the right RNA, a step called initiation. A protein called eIF4A normally jump-starts this process by helping to recruit specific partner proteins to the ribosome.
"Initiation may sound simple, but in the cell, hundreds if not thousands of RNAs are floating around and the ribosome has to find and bind to the right one at the right site," says Liu. "It's like having a bucket of snakes and having to pick up a particular snake by the head."
In their experiments, the researchers found that PatA binds to eIF4A and actually increases the protein's enzymatic activity. Delving further, however, the researchers discovered that initiation of protein building is blocked because, once bound to PatA, eIF4A cannot interact properly with its normal partner proteins, eIF4G and eIF4B.
"Under normal circumstances, eIF4A forms a stable complex with eIF4G and interacts only transiently with eIF4B, but PatA changes all that," says Liu. "Binding to PatA causes eIF4A and eIF4B to form a stable complex, which is packaged into so-called stress granules -- clumps of ribosomes and RNAs the cell puts together to temporarily halt protein production in a crisis."
Liu's laboratory is now studying how the clumps are involved in cellular suicide, a process called apoptosis. They will eventually be testing a version of PatA, made by their long-term collaborator Daniel Romo, a synthetic chemist at Texas A & M University, that's easier to synthesize and more stable than the natural product. Eventually, the researchers will test whether their versions of PatA might be drug candidates.
The researchers were funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Keck Center, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
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Ten thousands seek to ban medical infomercials
Almost 20,000 people have signed a Consumer Association's petition against medical infomercials.The Netherlands – Almost 20,000 people have signed a Consumers Association petition against medical infomercials which indirectly promotes dubious medication.
Advertising medication is banned in the Netherlands but many companies get round the ban by producing infomercials about relatively harmless diseases and afflictions such as athlete's foot or restless legs.
The infomercials prompt many people to visit their GPs who would then prescribe medication for the affliction.
The Consumers Association says these are minor medical irritations and often do not warrant a GP consultation and has called on Public Health Minister Ab Klink to ban medical infomercials.
More people have signed the Consumer Association's petition against medical infomercials than any other campaign launched by the group.
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fall down, as if collapsing
"The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"
topple, tumble, tipverb
cause to topple or tumble by pushing
to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something
to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To fall forward; to tumble down.
Etymology: from top.
Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;
Though castles topple on their warders heads. William Shakespeare.
The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale,
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
Then slip I from her quite, down topples she. William Shakespeare.
to fall forward; to pitch or tumble down
to throw down; to overturn
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
top′l, v.i. to fall forward: to tumble down. [Freq. of top.]
The numerical value of topple in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
The numerical value of topple in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Red means you need to act now because there is an imminent danger to life, winds of 70 mph will uproot trees, which can block roads and crush cars or buildings. They can pick up roof tiles and hurl them around. If you're hit by one of those you will be seriously hurt or killed. Wind that strong will sweep people and vehicles off streets, and topple electricity lines.
She's crying on TV. She's tried everything else, she doesn't have any other cards to play. All of her countrymen know it and currency crises tend to topple governments more than anything else.
The crime of executing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr will topple the Saudi regime.
( Bashar al -) Assad is a bad man. Gadhafi was a bad man. Hosni Mubarak had a terrible human rights record. But they were assisting us -- at least Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak -- in fighting radical Islamic terrorists, if we topple Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests.
As president, I will stand with Israel and keep all options on the table, including military force, to topple the terrorist Iranian regime.
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- enderrocar, vinclar, tombarCatalan, Valencian
- převrhnout, svrhnout, převrhnout se, překotit, kácet se, překotit se, svalitCzech
- vælte, omstyrte, styrteDanish
- umfallen, wackeln, stürzen, umkippenGerman
- recargar, derribarSpanish
- ledönt, felborít, leborít, felborul, eldőlHungarian
- reclinare, abbattersi, reclinarsi, abbattereItalian
- przewracać sięPolish
- чебурахнуться, валить, повалиться, повалить, валиться, опрокинуть, опрокидываться, свергнуть, свергать, опрокидывать, опрокинутьсяRussian
- tippa, stjälpa, störta, vältaSwedish
- பின் தள்ளுதல்Tamil
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I love Halloween dot to dot printable activities for kids that help them with their writing. You can easily print several of these and use them again and again!
At Halloween my kids love watching movies and cartoons on Youtube! They also love attending fancy dress parties and doing Halloween crafts!
I like to give them a range of activities to do while they are off school for the holiday period, and dot to dot printables work extremely well.
I have a Halloween series with 5 pages with a different picture on each. Children have to join the dots to form the word that represents the picture.
In this set we have Jack O Lantern, Ghost, Haunted House, Witch Hat and Bat.
This is a good opportunity for kids to practice their letters and spelling, with words that are associated with Halloween.
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A new study from Harvard has challenged the FBI’s claims that the use of encryption, or “going dark,” will inhibit law enforcement when investigating crimes or terrorism.
The report, Don’t Panic. Making Progress on the “Going Dark” Debate, published by Harvard’s Berkman Center, claims that officials’ anti-encryption stances are overblown and the glut of new Internet-connected devices hitting the market gives law enforcement more avenues for carrying out investigations.
“Appliances and products ranging from televisions and toasters to bed sheets, light bulbs, cameras, toothbrushes, door locks, cars, watches and other wearables are being packed with sensors and wireless connectivity,” said the report, which goes on to name-check the myriad major companies making smart home products like TVs or wearable devices that could be utilized by law enforcement.
“These devices will all be connected to each other via the Internet, transmitting telemetry data to their respective vendors in the cloud for processing,” the authors said.
“The audio and video sensors on IoT devices will open up numerous avenues for government actors to demand access to real-time and recorded communications.”
Authors of the report include renowned cryptographer Bruce Schneier and Jonathan Zittrain from Harvard Law School. Their report says the FBI is largely ignoring this wave of new Internet-connected devices by focusing on encrypted communications. They argue that the Internet will still be populated by mostly unencrypted traffic.
The encryption or “going dark” debate centers on the argument that law enforcement need a means to access communications in order to pursue criminal investigations. Encryption put in place for users by device manufacturers or services would make this practically impossible, regardless of whether there was a warrant or not.
Recently, NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers questioned the argument put forward by the FBI and its chief, James Comey, over the need to apply backdoors in encrypted communications.
However the authors of the Harvard report do concede that technology has “to some extent” made investigations more difficult but not impossible.
“[We] question whether the “going dark” metaphor accurately describes the state of affairs. Are we really headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible? We think not.”
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Where is Coastal Connections Part Number Guide?
What causes insertion loss in a connector?
Insertion loss in connectors typically comes from misalignment of the fibers or bent fibers in the connectors from active core alignment. The misalignment comes from eccentricity of the core in the fiber, eccentricity of the hole in the ferrule and most of all the eccentricity of the fiber in the hole. Bending of the fiber typically comes from the fiber being constrained at the back of the connector while the ferrule moves back during mating.
Why is the NA of my end-cap fiber different from the NA specified by the fiber manufacturer?
End-capping a fiber will narrow the NA by around 0.003 if the manufacturer is very careful; otherwise, the process of end-capping can narrow the NA substantially. The NA fiber manufacturers list on their datasheets are typically a theoretical value or the NA of the glass preform before drawing. From what we can gather, only one of the four suppliers we use for single-mode and PM fibers has ever measured the NA of a completed fiber. And that supplier reported the NA of the fiber as the diameter of the beam divided by the distance from the source, which resulted in an NA specification two times larger than how NA is typically defined. This possibly came from there not being an industry standard for measuring the NA out of a fiber. If you know of anyone who has verified the theoretical equations for calculating NA out of a visible wavelength single-mode fiber, we’d appreciate it if you let us know.
What is a wide key and what is a narrow key on FC Connectors?
Narrow key connectors have a 2.0mm key and are used on and recommended for most FC connectors including UPC, APC, and PM connectors. They are sometimes referred to as R Type. Wide key connectors have a 2.14mm key and are required when mating an APC connector or a PM connector to a wide key connector. They are sometimes referred to as N Type. TIA FOCIS-4, which controls the widths of the keys, calls out 4 different standards but they can be grouped into wide and narrow keys.
What is the difference between a PC and a UPC polish?
A UPC (Ultra Physical Contact) is a higher quality polish than a PC (Physical Contact) polish. The UPC polish has less scratches and the higher quality as measured by the improved return loss. UPC connectors typically have 45 to 50dB return loss while PC connectors produce 25 to 30dB return loss. UPC connectors mate to PC connectors without any problem.
Why do short wavelength single-mode cables have higher insertion loss than longer wavelength cables?
The shorter the wavelength of light the smaller the mode field diameter (MFD) of the fiber. Fiber for a 400nm purple laser has a 3.5um MFD while a 1550nm laser requires a fiber with a 10.5um MFD. The 400nm fiber is 1/3 the diameter and 1/9 the area of the 1550nm fiber. If both fibers are misaligned by 1um the 1550nm fiber will have approximately 0.16dB (3.5%) loss while the 400nm fiber will have approximately 1.5dB (30%) loss.
Why do some short wavelength cables degrade over time?
Some short wavelength cables degrade over time as the fiber dopants darken, the epoxy in the connector reacts with the short wavelength light, or the laser light damages the surface of the fiber. These problems can be avoided if the cable is designed and built properly.
What is the difference between Low OH and High OH multimode fibers?
Most multimode fibers are low OH but these fibers have high insertion loss below 400nm. Below 400nm High OH fibers are recommended.
Why do active core alignment connectors have insertion loss?
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Our prayer book unites us with christians across the globe. We find our unity not in politics, gender, color, or creed but rather in common prayer.
The Book of Common Prayer is a treasure chest full of devotional and teaching resources for individuals and congregations, but it is also the primary symbol of our unity. As Armentrout and Slocum note in their Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, that “Anglican liturgical piety has been rooted in the Prayer Book tradition since the publication of the first English Prayer Book in 1549.”
We, who are many and diverse, come together in Christ through our worship, our common prayer. The prayer book, most recently revised in 1979, contains our liturgies, our prayers, our theological documents, and much, much more.
Some helpful page numbers
Prayers for families and individual worship on page 136
Prayers when sick on page 453
Prayers when dying on page 462
Prayers for all sorts of occasions on page 810
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Chipotle is rolling out tofu, Subway is test-marketing hummus and IKEA is developing meat-free meatballs. Life is getting a lot easier for vegetarians on the go.
According to market researchers, we have young people to thank for this new wave of vegetarian food at national chains.
“Consumers overall are starting to buy dishes that are more healthy for them,” said Mary Chapman, product innovation director at Technomic, a Chicago-based consulting firm for the restaurant industry. “That’s a long-term trend, and it’s driven a lot by younger consumers. Millennials, in particular, are exploring vegetarian and vegan items.”
It’s no surprise today’s teens and 20-somethings often opt for vegetarian food. They have grown up tending school vegetable gardens while learning that meat recalls, ocean dead zones, greenhouse gases, worker abuse, heart attacks and animal cruelty can all be traced back to factory farms.
They like vegetables, and they know why they should eat them. But it turns out they’re also nudging the rest of us toward a more plant-based style of eating.
There’s been no documented uptick in people calling themselves vegetarian, meaning they never eat meat, Chapman said, so what is likely going on is that more and more people eat what marketers call a flexitarian or semi-vegetarian diet. They may eat meat and cheese, but in limited quantities or at set times. Mark Bittman’s VB6 (vegan before 6 p.m.) diet is a well-known example of a semi-vegetarian approach to food.
Chapman said other factors are at play, such as diners’ wider awareness of world cuisines and a variety of social influences.
“If there’s only one person in a party that is looking for something vegan,” Chapman added, “it could be a deal breaker for the whole party if the restaurant doesn’t offer something delicious and meatless of the same caliber as the rest of the menu.”
This is where the new tofu Sofritas from Chipotle excel. The shredded and braised tofu has a warm smoky pepper flavor and a welcome chewy texture.
Chipotle first began testing the tofu at seven restaurants in the San Francisco area in early 2013. This past March, the upscale fast food chain started selling the tofu in Maine, as part of its wider rollout along the East Coast. Chipotle spokesperson Danielle Winslow said all the restaurants should have the Sofritas by the end of the year.
The tofu stands out in the fast casual restaurant category because “it was conceived with vegans and vegetarians in mind, but it is so delicious it has broader appeal, as well, to all customers,” Winslow said.
On the recent evening when I queued up at the Chipotle in Westbrook to try the Sofritas, I couldn’t help but notice at least three people ahead of me in line ordered them. One guy combined it with chicken.
In contrast, the veggie patty Burger King introduced in 2007 doesn’t seem to have much crossover appeal. Last summer the public radio humorists at “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” skewered the burger, with Ian Chillag saying: “This is a great gateway to vegetarianism. This gate is locked, so everybody turns back.”
While Chipotle is on track to phase out all genetically modified ingredients by the end of this year and uses organic, GMO-free tofu from Hodo Soy Beanery in Oakland, California, to make its Sofritas, Burger King’s veggie patty is made by Morningstar Farms, a division of food giant Kellogg.
Subway has long offered what it calls a Veggie Delite – a roll filled with lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers and onions. It’s essentially a hummus sandwich, without the hummus. So it makes sense that in April the company announced it was test marketing the chickpea and tahini spread at about 1,000 stores.
Calls to a dozen Subways in the Greater Portland area failed to turn up any offering hummus.
Also in April, furniture giant IKEA, which has a cafeteria in all its stores, announced plans to introduce a vegetarian version of its popular Swedish meatballs. The company said, by offering the forthcoming meatballs, it was helping with a “move toward a more sustainable society.”
We don’t have an IKEA in Maine. Locals travel to Stoughton, Massachusetts, outside of Boston to purchase the company’s low-cost furniture. Like Chipotle and Subway, IKEA is popular with college students and young people just starting out.
Noting that we’re likely to see more national chain restaurants add vegan and vegetarian items, Chapman at Technomic predicts the restaurants “that already understand a younger demographic will probably do it better.”
Because knowing the tastes of food-savvy Millennials could determine whether these vegetarian dishes win over customers or provide fodder for comedians.
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A joint North American bid won the right to host the 2026 World Cup in a vote of FIFA’s member delegations on Wednesday, meaning the massive soccer tournament will make its way to Canada for the first time.
Canada has a mixed history of hosting major international sports competitions, from the financially disastrous 1976 Summer Games to the successful 2010 Winter Olympics and 2015 Women’s World Cup.
Here’s a look at the legacy some major events have left on Canadian hosts.
2015 Women’s World Cup
The tournament prompted some infrastructure improvements — B.C. Place Stadium got new artificial turf and Montreal’s Olympic Stadium got new padding under its existing turf.
Several training sites also got an upgrade. But the tournament was able to take advantage of new CFL stadiums in Ottawa and Winnipeg.
A bigger legacy came off the field where the tournament’s total attendance of 1,353,506 — bear in mind FIFA counted attendance for doubleheaders as two matches even though one ticket gained access to both — set a record for a FIFA competition other than the men’s World Cup.
FIFA called the championship game in Vancouver between the U.S. and Japan the most-watched soccer match in U.S. history, for both men’s and women’s events. Canadian Soccer Association general secretary Peter Montopoli said the success of the Women’s World Cup was raised at almost every member association meeting they had in advance of the 2026 men’s World Cup hosting vote.
2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C.
The 2010 Games announced Canada’s arrival as a Winter Olympic power. Canada won 14 gold medals in Vancouver and Whistler — the most by a Winter Olympic host and tied for the most overall — and 26 medals overall. Buoyed by this success, Canada won 10 gold medals in Sochi, just one behind co-leaders Russia and Norway, and 11 gold medals and a nation-best 29 overall medals in Pyeongchang.
As far as infrastructure, Vancouver gained athletic facilities from a games that cost $7.7 billion, and the Canada Line rapid transit connecting the airport, downtown waterfront and Richmond was transformational.
The widening of the Sea to Sky Highway from Vancouver to Whistler made the commute faster and safer. The Richmond Olympic Oval is a hub for recreational and high-performance athletes and houses the Canadian women’s volleyball team. The Hillcrest Centre provides curling and hockey ice and an aquatic facility, while Whistler’s sliding track is an annual World Cup stop.
2001 World Track and Field Championships
Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium hosted the eighth world track and field championships, and the first in North America. The events were televised to a global audience of four billion people.
But the event was remembered by the empty seats in the cavernous stadium, and the scathing attacks on Edmonton in British newspapers. And the Canadian team didn’t win a medal over the event’s 10 days.
Still, more than 400,000 tickets were sold, more per session than the attendance for the three previous world championships in Europe, and organizers said the $125 million event was on budget.
Canada didn’t host a major international track and field event at the senior level until the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.
1994 FIBA World Basketball Championship
Toronto’s SkyDome and Maple Leaf Gardens, as well as Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, hosted the world basketball championships that were originally awarded to Belgrade, Yugoslavia. But when the United Nations imposed a trade embargo on the Balkan country, Toronto stepped up as a replacement option in 1992.
The ’94 world championships marked the first time FIBA allowed NBA players to participate. The result was the United States Dream Team 2 demolished Russia 137-91 for gold. Shaquille O’Neal was named the MVP. Canada finished seventh.
1988 Calgary Winter Olympics
Calgary was severely lacking sports venues, so the build for the first Winter Games in Canada —with its price tag of $829 million — was significant.
The Saddledome, Olympic Oval, Canada Olympic Park, Canmore Nordic Centre, Nakiska Ski Resort and Max Bell Arena sprouted from the ground in the early 1980s, although the arrival of the NHL’s Flames also made the Saddledome a necessity.
A CTrain line from downtown to the city’s northwest was completed in 1987. A $220-million winter sport institute was constructed at Canada Olympic Park through the ’88 legacy foundation. The majority of winter high-performance athletes in Canada either train in Calgary or have come to the city for training camps and competition. Calgary regularly hosts World Cups and world championships.
While the Canadian Olympic team failed to win a gold in Calgary and earned just five medals overall, the Games were arguably the seed for Canada’s eventual ascent into a Winter Games contender.
Canada increased its overall medal count at every Winter Games between 1988 and 2018, with the exception of a small dip from 26 in Vancouver to 25 at the 2014 Sochi Games.
1976 Montreal Summer Olympics
Canada’s first Olympics was considered a financial white elephant, taking three decades to pay off. The final price tag for Olympic Stadium, labelled “The Big Owe,” and other Olympic Park structures was $1.47 billion. The stadium housed Major League Baseball’s Montreal Expos before they left in 2004, and the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes before they departed in 1999.
There are ’76 legacies, however, that contribute to the local and national sporting landscape. The park’s aquatic centre is a world-class venue for swimming, diving and synchronized swimming and home to the national synchro team. Claude Robillard Sports Complex is a multi-purpose facility that produced Olympic diving medallists Alex Despatie and Sylvie Bernier.
The equestrian centre in Bromont hosts international events. The velodrome was turned into an indoor nature exhibit.
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Hip replacement has become necessary for your arthritic hip: this is one of the most effective operations known and should give you many years of freedom from pain.
Once you have arthritis which has not responded to conservative treatment, you may well be a candidate for total hip replacement surgery.
Arthritis is a general term covering numerous conditions where the joint surface (cartilage) wears out. The joint surface is covered by a smooth articular surface that allows pain free movement in the joint. This surface can wear out for a number of reasons, often the definite cause is not known. When the articular cartilage wears out, the bone ends rub on one another and cause pain. There are numerous conditions that can cause arthritis and often the exact cause is never known. In general, but not always, it affects people as they get older (Osteoarthritis).
Other causes include
In an Arthritic Hip
The diagnosis of osteoarthritis is made on history, physical examination & X-rays. There is no blood test to diagnose Osteoarthritis (wear & tear arthritis)
THR is indicated for arthritis of the hip that has failed to respond to conservative (non-operative) treatment.
You should consider a THR when you have
Prior to surgery you will usually have tried some simple treatments such as simple analgesics, weight loss, anti-inflammatory medications, modification of your activities, walking sticks, physiotherapy.
The decision to proceed with THR surgery is a cooperative one between you, your surgeon, family and your local doctor. Benefits of surgery include
An incision is made over the hip to expose the hip joint
The acetabulum (socket) is prepared using a special instrument called a reamer. The acetabular component is then inserted into the socket. This is sometimes reinforced with screws or occasionally cemented. A liner which can be made of plastic, metal or ceramic material is then placed inside the acetabular component.
The femur (thigh bone) is then prepared. The femoral head which is arthritic is cut off and the bone prepared using special instruments, to exactly fit the new metal femoral component. The femoral component is then inserted into the femur. This may be press fit relying on bone to grow into it or cemented depending on a number of factors such as bone quality and surgeon’s preference.
The real femoral head component is then placed on the femoral stem. This can be made of metal or ceramic.
The hip is then reduced again, for the last time.
The muscles and soft tissues are then closed carefully.
You will wake up in the recovery room with a number of monitors to record your vitals. (Blood pressure, Pulse, Oxygen saturation, temperature, etc.) You will have a dressing on your hip and drains coming out of your wound.
Post-operative X-rays will be performed in recovery.
Once you are stable and awake you will be taken back to the ward.
You will have one or two drips in your arm for fluid and pain relief. This will be explained to you by your anaesthetist.
On the day following surgery, your drains will usually be removed and you will be allowed to sit out of bed or walk depending on your surgeons preference. Pain is normal but if you are in a lot of pain, inform your nurse.
You will be able to put all your weight on your hip and your Physiotherapist will help you with the post-op hip exercises.
You will be discharged to go home or a rehabilitation hospital approximately 5-7 days depending on your pain and help at home.
Sutures are usually dissolvable but if not are removed at about 10 days.
A post-operative visit will be arranged prior o your discharge.
You will be advised about how to walk with crutches for two weeks following surgery and then using walking aids for another four to six weeks.
Remember this is an artificial hip and must be treated with care.
AVOID THE COMBINED MOVEMENT OF BENDING YOUR HIP AND TURNING YOUR FOOT IN. This can cause DISLOCATION. Other precautions to avoid dislocation are
As with any major surgery, there are potential risks involved. The decision to proceed with the surgery is made because the advantages of surgery outweigh the potential disadvantages.
It is important that you are informed of these risks before the surgery takes place.
Complications can be medical (general) or specific to the hip
Medical Complications include those of the anesthetic and your general well being. Almost any medical condition can occur so this list is not complete.
Infection can occur with any operation. In the hip this can be superficial or deep. Infection rates are approximately 1%, if it occurs it can be treated with antibiotics but may require further surgery. Very rarely your hip may need to be removed to eradicate infection.
This means the hip comes out of its socket. Precautions need to be taken with your new hip forever. It a dislocation occurs it needs to be put back into place with an anaesthetic. Rarely this becomes a recurrent problem needing further surgery.
Blood clots (Deep Venous Thrombosis)
These can form in the calf muscles and can travel to the lung (Pulmonary embolism). These can occasionally be serious and even life threatening. If you get calf pain or shortness of breath at any stage, you should notify your surgeon.
Damage to nerves or blood vessels
Also rare but can lead to weakness and loss of sensation in part of the leg. Damage to blood vessels may require further surgery if bleeding is ongoing.
Your scar can be sensitive or have a surrounding area of numbness. This normally decreases over time and does not lead to any problems with your new joint.
Leg length inequality
It is very difficult to make the leg exactly the same length as the other one. Occasionally the leg is deliberately lengthened to make the hip stable during surgery. There are some occasions when it is simply not possible to match the leg lengths. All leg length inequalities can be treated by a simple shoe raise on the shorter side.
All joints eventually wear out. The more active you are, the quicker this will occur. In general 80-90% of hip replacements survive 15-20 years.
Failure to relieve pain
Very rare but may occur especially if some pain is coming from other areas such as the spine.
Unsightly or thickened scar
Limp due to muscle weakness
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In the R language, a dataframe object is a way to group tabular data. The functions in this package allow the manipulation of data in a similar way in Octave. Dataframe objects in Octave can be created in a variety of ways (from other objects or from tabular data in a file) and then can be accessed either as matrix or by column name.
This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.
released on 10 February 2012
Extension or PluginThis package can be used as an extension, plugin, or add-on to:
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Ways to save:
- Cut out bad habits and addictions
- Cook at home & make/ brew your own coffee
- Enroll at the gym as a way of entertainment
- Get generic brands
- Buy in bulk
- Avoid vending machines and spending out
- Plan meals ahead
- Buy discounted items or items that are on sale
- Avoid impulse buys
- Set a limit on purchases and gifts
- Consider the difference between a smart thoughtful purchase vs expensive purchase as a gift. Just because it’s pricey doesn’t mean it’s the best gift
Consider ways to pay off debt. There are many different ways to pay off debt.
– Smallest debt first
– largest rate etc.
Don’t add new debt.
Consider using direct deposit to automatically save.
Research fees and best interest rates.
Make it harder to spend & easier to save.
Periodically check to see if you’re meeting savings goals.
Save for emergencies and common expenses including budgeting for vacation and retirement.
- What are you wanting to save for?
- How much money is needed?
- How long will it take to save to achieve this goal?
- Will I need to change my savings habit to achieve my goal?
- Am I falling short or on target?
Consider having separate accounts for separate savings goals.
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Computer Hardware and Accesories
-Computer hardware is the physical components of a computer.They are needed by the computer to function.They are different from software,which consists of written instructions that tell the physical components what to do.
-There are internal and external components.
-Examples of the internal components are the mother board,power supply and the Central Processing Unit(CPU)
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How Bad Is It Really to Sleep With Wet Hair?
It can be tempting to lie in bed and fall asleep right after showering, especially if you’ve had a long day. Sleeping with wet hair isn’t a crime, of course — but there could be some long-term consequences.
Wet hair can be a breeding ground for all kinds of creepy organisms, including bacteria and fungi. And the growth of these tiny microorganisms can lead to infections on your scalp.
We chatted with two doctors to discover the effects of sleeping with wet or damp hair and got their best practices to avoid it.
3 Effects of Sleeping With Wet Hair
1. Bacterial Growth
When you sleep on wet hair, the heat from your head and the water creates moisture. Unfortunately, this can serve as a breeding ground for microorganisms and “can lead to an environment that favors bacterial and fungal growth on pillows,” says Boston-based physician Po-Chang Hsu, MD.
This also applies to damp hair, which can bring moisture to the pillow, “creating the same environment as wet hair,” he adds.
2. Fungal Infections
Sleeping with wet hair can also increase the risk of fungal infections on your scalp, says Dr. Hsu. One type of fungi that can grow is Malassezia, which can lead to dandruff or dermatitis.
3. Hair Breakage
Wet hair is more fragile, making it more susceptible to split ends. Tossing and turning while you zzz can also create friction, making your wet hairs more prone to breakages, Dr. Hsu says.
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Safer Ways to Sleep on Wet Hair
1. Use a Towel
If you don’t have time to add between rinsing and sleeping, Nilong Vyas, MD, a board-certified pediatrician and medical review expert at the Sleep Foundation, recommends using an absorbent towel to soak up as much water as possible.
“Wrap the wet hair in a towel until close to bedtime and then run a hairdryer through to eliminate the remaining dampness,” she says.
2. Apply a Leave-In Product
To prevent hair breakage, you can use a leave-in hair moisturizer or conditioner. The leave-in coats your strands with protective layers of oils and prevents your hair from tangling or breaking.
3. Swap Your Pillowcase for Silk
Tossing and turning can create unnecessary friction between your hair and the pillowcase. The good news is that you can swap your pillowcase. Instead of cotton, which can cause friction between your hair and pillow, opt for a silk one. Silk pillowcases tend to be smoother and will decrease the friction against your hair and skin.
So, How Bad Is It Really to Go to Bed With Wet Hair?
While wet hair is unlikely to make you sick, we’d recommend sleeping with dry hair to prevent bacteria or fungus from growing.
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Who doesn’t have bills to pay? With a lot of new stuff out in the market, who wouldn’t want to buy any? When you want to buy something, you have to pay the bill in order to get it. A billing statement, more commonly known as the bill, is an itemized list of goods and services. It is a document where particulars are written as a form of agreement between a customer and seller.
Billing statements come in different forms. Some of them are in receipts or invoices, bank accounts, and credit card statements to name a few. There are also billing statements that are sent via email. These billing statement samples we have here for you can help you with your billing statement needs. We also have Sample Statements that you may also find useful.
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Types of Billing Systems
- Pre-billing System
In this type of billing system, the invoice or billing statement is issued to the consumer even before the goods or services are consumed. This type of billing system is common in online shopping and in hospitals before a surgery is scheduled.
- Post-billing System
Contrary to the pre-billing system, the post-billing system issues the invoice or the billing statement after the goods and services are consumed. This type of billing system is used among telecommunications companies who offer postpaid plans, cable, and internet service providers and credit cards.
Some Examples of Billing Statements
- Postpaid Billing Statement
This postpaid billing statement is an example of a post-billing statement. This billing statement is great for businesses who are offering services to their customers before payment is made.
- Credit Card Account Statement
A credit card account statement shows a list and the prices of all the purchases made by the customer within their billing cycle. It shows any unpaid balances from their previous billing cycle and any fees or interests that they have incurred.
- Business/Rental Tax Billing Statement
It is important that your business or rental billing statement includes details, like date of the payment, address, and name of the business and name of the owner. This will make your billing statement look genuine. Aside from this sample, we also have Safety Statement Samples, Sample Income Statements that are also useful for your business.
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Billing Invoice Statement
Billing Statement Letter
Billing Statement Example
Importance of a Billing Statement
- A billing statement serves as a reminder for customers that they need to pay their dues. It provides them information about their due date, previous balances if they have any, and the amount that they need to pay.
- It also serves a written document for both seller and customer about a purchase and may be used to make disputes. It is like a legal document wherein both parties agreed to the transaction or purchase.
- A billing statement is like a list of all the things that one has purchased, so it is also helpful in tracking your expenses and finding out where your money went. That way you won’t have to wonder what happened to your hard-earned income.
- It serves as a reference for a purchase of any goods or services.
Billing statements come in different forms. Some billing statements are available online in Web and PDF formats and others are printed on paper and are sent to the customer’s address. There are also billing statements that contain opening statements. You might also want to check out Opening Statement Samples. Whatever format you want, make sure that they have all those details necessary for a genuine billing statement.
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Under the previous health service structure, primary care trusts would alert all practices in the local area if there was an individual visiting multiple practices to request specific drugs.
MPs have said that the highlighting of so-called 'doctor shopping' now needs to be "formalised" in order for it to continue with the structural changes in healthcare in UK.
A report recommended that NHS England should issue guidance to local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), so they take on the gathering of data on patients visiting multiple practices to request specific drugs.
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Car servicing high quality company in Reading in 2022? The air you breathe inside your car is important, which is why experts recommend you change the air filter every 12 months or 12,000 miles. Changing the air filter is something you can get done when you take your car for an oil change or a routine check. However, if you’re skilled with cars, you can change it yourself. A typical air filter costs about $10, and it takes 10 minutes to change. Read more info on Car Servicing Reading. An MOT involves dozens of checks on your car, ranging from the brakes and fuel system to lights, mirrors, seatbelts, windscreen wipers and exhaust system. You can also get an MOT done at a local council test centre. These test centres don’t normally carry out repairs as well as MOTs. It doesn’t cover the condition of the engine, clutch and gearbox. To find your nearest authorised MOT test centre, visit these websites. How long does an MOT take? An average MOT test takes between 45 and 60 minutes, but there are a couple of other things to take into consideration.
Any tyre that doesn’t have at least 1.6mm of tread across the middle three-quarters is an instant MoT failure. Tyres with significant damage such as cuts, bulges or cracking will cost you a pass certificate too. All your vehicle’s lights must be clean and work correctly, or you will fail the MoT. So before you book it in, check they do. That means headlamps on full and dipped beam, sidelamps and daytime running lights, hazard lights and indicators, fog lamps if fitted, and even number plate lights at the back. You can pick up most bulbs from car accessory stores, and they’re usually easy to fit – if sometimes a little fiddly.
An MOT is a legal requirement after three years. Without it your insurance is invalidated, and you could be fined. There’s another important aspect to the MOT. It proves that your car is roadworthy, and safe to drive. Vehicles have a lot of stresses put upon them. As they age the chances of parts wearing or failing increase. An MOT test can help to spot problems before they occur. Call Reading Service & MOT Centre today. We perform fair and thorough MOTs for all cars and motorbikes.
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There would be no denying that the modern business world is a highly competitive one. If your business is something that is new, there would be a lot of steps that you would need to take regarding staying in the market. When you want to stay in the market in a proper manner as a business, it would be quite clear to you would have to know important matters such as how the business world functions and what kind of resources can be utilized by your business in working in the right market. When you actually look into the right ways for staying in the market as a business, you would be able to see that there are various types of solutions that you would be able to adapt in a proper manner.
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Russia/Ukraine Crisis: The Evolving International Sanctions Response
On February 21 and 22, in response to escalating Russian aggression toward neighboring Ukraine, the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom (1) announced initial sanctions targeting Russia and Russian-claimed regions within Ukraine; and (2) threatened additional sanctions if Russia persists in its incursion into Ukraine.
The following provides an overview of key sanctions-related actions announced to date. The situation remains extremely fluid, and this summary will be updated if/when additional actions are announced.
On February 21, President Joe Biden signed an executive order (the “EO”) imposing broad-based sanctions targeting the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”) and Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”) regions of Ukraine, as well as any other regions of Ukraine that may be subsequently designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State (collectively, “Covered Regions”).
Similar to the existing embargo targeting the disputed Crimea region, which Russia attempted to annex in 2014, the EO prohibits:
- new investment in DNR, LNR, or any other Covered Region by a U.S. person, wherever located;
- the importation into the United States, directly or indirectly, of any goods, services, or technology from any Covered Region;
- the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a U.S. person, wherever located, of any goods, services, or technology to any Covered Region; and
- any approval, financing, facilitation, or guarantee by a U.S. person, wherever located, of a transaction by a foreign person where the transaction by that foreign person would be prohibited by the EO if performed by a U.S. person or within the United States.
In connection with the EO, OFAC published general licenses authorizing certain transactions involving DNR or LNR. These licenses include General License No. 17 (authorizing wind-down transactions involving DNR or LNR through March 23, 2022) and general licenses relating to agricultural commodities, medicine, medical devices, telecommunications, personal remittances, internet-based communications, and activities of designated international organizations.
The EO also authorizes the imposition of sanctions on any person—regardless of nationality—determined:
- to operate in any Covered Region from February 21, 2022;
- to be a leader, official, senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors of an entity operating in any Covered Region;
- to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the EO; or
- to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the EO.
As a result, going forward, non-U.S. persons—not ordinarily subject to U.S. jurisdiction—who meet any of the above criteria would be at risk of being targeted by U.S. sanctions.
Following a speech by President Biden on February 22, OFAC announced several designations to the Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons (“SDN”) List, as follows:
- OFAC designated Russian state development bank Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs Vnesheconombank (“VEB”) to the SDN List. VEB previously was subject to sectoral sanctions pursuant to Directive 1, which prohibited U.S. persons from transacting in, providing financing for, or otherwise dealing in new equity or debt of specified tenors of VEB. As a result of the February 22 designation, virtually all transactions involving VEB are prohibited for U.S. persons, and all property of VEB Bank within the United States or the possession or control of U.S. persons is subject to blocking requirements. OFAC announced the designation due to VEB’s role as “the servicer of Russia’s sovereign debt, financier for exports, and a funding source for investment projects with a loan portfolio of over $20 billion.”
- OFAC designated state-backed Russian bank Promsvyazbank Public Joint Stock Company (“PSB”) for its activities within the Russian defense sector, including “servic[ing] nearly 70 percent of Russia’s defense contracts and provides banking and personal finance to Russian military personnel.”
- Although, pursuant to OFAC’s 50 Percent Rule, all majority-owned subsidiaries of VEB and PSB automatically are subject to blocking requirements and associated restrictions, OFAC took the additional action of designating 25 subsidiaries of VEB and 17 subsidiaries of PSB to the SDN List to underscore their newly sanctioned status, as follows:
- Designated VEB Subsidiaries: Bank BELVEB OJSC (based in Belarus); VEB Leasing OJSC; Prominvestbank (based in Ukraine); VEB Capital; VEB Engineering LLC; JSC Infraveb; JSC VEB.DV; VEB Asia Limited (based in Hong Kong); LLC Infrastructure Molzhaninovo; LLC Resort Zolotoe Koltso; JSC Russian Export Center; LLC VEB Ventures; LLC VEB Service; LLC Special Organization for Project Finance Factory of Project Finance; LLC Sibulglemet Group; JSC Angstrem-T; LLC NM-Tekh; JSC Slava; JSC PFC CSKA; LLC Torgovy Kvartal-Novosibirisk; LLC Baikal Center; LLC Progorod; LLC VEB.RF Asset Management; Eximbank of Russia JSC; and Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance OJSC.
- Designated PSB Subsidiaries: Alkes Treid OOO; Antares OOO; Elitnye Doma OOO; PSB Innovations and Investments Limited Liability Company; PSB-Foreks OOO; Kholtsvud OOO; Kourf OOO; Management Company Promsvyaz LLC; Paskal OOO; PSB Biznes OOO; Saint-Petersburg International Banking Conference LLC; Sergievo-Posad Lend OOO; PSB Avializing OOO; Tekhnosoft OOO; Trinitex OOO; and PSB Lizing OOO.
- OFAC designated three oligarchs to the SDN List: Denis Aleksandrovich Bortnikov (a Deputy President of VTB Bank), Petr Mikhailovich Fradkov (Chairman and CEO of PSB), and Vladimir Sergeevich Kiriyenko (CEO of VK Group, parent company of Russian social media platform VKontakte). In addition, OFAC re-designated Bortnikov’s father, Aleksandr Vasilevich Bortnikov (Director of the Russian Federal Security Service of Russia and permanent member of the Security Council), and Kiriyenko’s father, Sergei Vladilenovich Kiriyenko (First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Office).
Of note, OFAC issued two limited general licenses relating to VEB, as follows:
- General License No. 2 authorizes any dealings that “are ordinarily incident and necessary to the servicing of bonds [involving VEB or a VEB subsidiary] issued before March 1, 2022 by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, or the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.” This general license will not cover newly issued bonds, which are subject to the sovereign debt restrictions discussed below.
- General License No. 3 is a wind-down general license allowing U.S. persons until March 24, 2022 to wind down any transactions involving VEB or VEB subsidiaries.
Sovereign Debt Restrictions
OFAC issued Russia-related Directive 1A under Executive Order 14024, amending and superseding a previous version of the Directive. Directive 1A extends existing sovereign debt prohibitions on U.S. financial institutions to cover participation in the secondary market for ruble or non-ruble denominated bonds issued after March 1, 2022 by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, or the Ministry of Finance for the Russian Federation. The term “U.S. financial institution” means any U.S. entity (including its foreign branches) that is engaged in the business of accepting deposits, making, granting, transferring, holding, or brokering loans or credits, or purchasing or selling foreign exchange, securities, futures or options, or procuring purchasers and sellers thereof, as principal or agent.
On February 23, the European Union imposed targeted sanctions on individuals deemed to be responsible for Russia’s acts in Ukraine, including the Russian Defence Minister, President Putin’s Chief of Staff, other high-ranking members of the military, and the roughly 350 members of the Russian Duma who voted in favour of recognition of the regions’ independence. President Putin was not named. As a result of these designations, entities incorporated in or operating in the European Union are prohibited from directly or indirectly providing funds or economic resources to named individuals and entities.
The European Union also sanctioned banks determined to be financing Russian military and other operations in Ukraine: Bank Rossiya, VEB, and PSB. Similar to the U.S., members of VTB’s senior management, including the President and Deputy President and Chairman of VTB Bank management board, were also added to the sanctions list.
The EU also prohibited import into the EU of goods originating in the non-government-controlled areas of the DNR and LNR, with the exception of goods having been granted a certificate of origin by the Government of Ukraine. The prohibition includes financing or financial assistance, insurance or reinsurance for the same.
In addition, the EU prohibited export, sale, supply or transfer from the EU of goods and technology for use in certain sectors in the non-government-controlled areas of the DNR and LNR. These sectors mirror those in the current Crimea sanctions: transport, telecommunications, energy or the prospecting, exploration and production of oil, gas and mineral resources, as well as services related to tourism activities in the non-government-controlled areas of the DNR and LNR. Finally, Germany announced that it has stopped the ongoing certification process for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which means that this pipeline will not become operational at this time. Germany had to date contested any efforts by the U.S. to impose sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 project in light of Europe’s dependence on Russian energy, and Germany’s ultimate willingness to halt the certification process is consistent with the stated commitment of Germany—and the rest of the European Union—to impose stringent sanctions measures on Russia.
While further details regarding new European Union sanctions are forthcoming, European Union officials have said it is coordinating measures with the United States, so companies incorporated or operating in the European Union should evaluate links to the DNR and LNR, as well as the individuals and entities newly sanctioned by the United States.
On February 22, the United Kingdom sanctioned five banks believed to support Russian military (including PSB) and other operations in disputed Ukrainian territories, along with three prominent Russian oligarchs. Sanctioned Financial Institutions: Bank Rossiya; Black Sea Bank for Development and Reconstruction; Joint Stock Company Genbank; IS Bank; Public Joint Stock Company Promsvyazbank (i.e., PSB).
- Sanctioned Oligarchs: Gennady Timchenko; Boris Rotenberg; Igor Rotenberg,
- The United Kingdom added additional names to the sanctions list on February 24 including Denis Alexandrovich (Deputy President and Chairman of the VTB Management Board), and Petr Mikhailovich (Chairman/CEO of PSB), and three other prominent businesspeople.
Additionally the United Kingdom sanctioned military companies:
- UralVagonZavod ("UVZ");
- United Aircraft Corporation,
- United Shipbuilding Corporation,
- JSC Tactical Missiles Corporation (TMC) and
Finally, the United Kingdom also added VTB Bank (which had previously been subject to more limited list-based sanctions) to the previous list of sanctioned financial institutions.
United Kingdom authorities have also been granted broad powers to designate any persons who are or have been involved in “obtaining a benefit from or supporting the Government of Russia” and are expected to add additional names to the sanctions list to mirror U.S. and EU designations in coming days. Similar to the European Union, entities incorporated or operating in the United Kingdom are prohibited from providing funds or economic resources to designated individuals and entities.
To date, the United Kingdom has not implemented any new financial or trade restrictions, but has announced that it will extend current Crimea sanctions to non-government-controlled territories in DNR and LNR. It has also stated it is coordinating with the United States and European Union to consider measures to prevent Russia from issuing sovereign debt on UK markets and to target financing to individuals and entities supporting the Russian government’s military efforts.
The above prohibitions may represent only the opening salvo in a significant escalation of U.S. and other international sanctions in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. As immediate next steps, U.S. and non-U.S. persons subject to one or more of the above sanctions regimes should prioritize identification of any business or dealings (direct or indirect) involving DNR, LNR, or the new additions to the SDN List and other restricted party lists; develop a strategy for communicating the new—and possible forthcoming—restrictions to affected subsidiaries and personnel; review existing contractual commitments with Russian and Ukrainian counterparties; and consider appropriate updates to internal compliance processes and template agreements. In addition, all interested parties should continue to monitor the rapidly evolving situation. | <urn:uuid:7822b384-88a0-4cfc-a6ce-d98f842054c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ropesgray.com/en/newsroom/alerts/2022/February/Russia-Ukraine-Crisis-The-Evolving-International-Sanctions-Response | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.925961 | 2,981 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Did You Know Plants Can Help Improve Your Home’s Indoor Air Quality?
We Floridians love our greenery. They add life and beauty to our homes, indoors and out. But did you know that there are several plants that improve indoor air quality as well?
It’s true: Some houseplants can absorb toxins from the air, cleansing it and providing greater balance to your indoor humidity, too. If you suffer from asthma or allergies, you may already know that certain toxins are particular instigators. In fact, their names alone signify trouble: benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene, among them.
Ten plants can counteract the presence of these toxins, according to a joint study done by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America. These plants include the bamboo palm, Chinese evergreen, English ivy and peace lily, to name just a few.
As you experiment with creating your own indoor landscape to incorporate these plants into your home, you may be pleased to know that some other plants that improve indoor air quality also made the list, and these are generally more widely available. These plants include:
- Aloe vera – The same plant that provides skin relief also filters gas emissions from toxic materials.
- Areca palm – This palm naturally repels benzene, formaldehyde and xylene.
- Boston fern – This plant is a natural humidifier. It releases moisture and removes benzene, formaldehyde and xylene from the air.
- Snake plant – This plant “bites” formaldehyde and nitrogen oxides in particular.
- Spider plant – The spider plant spins a special web for carbon monoxide.
Using plants that improve indoor air quality in your home is a great and affordable way to help everyone breathe easier. Just be careful not to give them too much power. In other words, think of plants as a way to augment your efforts to improve your indoor air quality – not to replace other sensible tactics, such as annual furnace and air conditioning maintenance checks.
For more information about plants that improve indoor air quality, or for other home comfort concerns, contact Scott’s Heat & Air. We’re proud to serve homeowners throughout Central Florida.
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How have we come to the end of Year 5 already? We have had an incredible final half term, although very busy! The children have amazed us with their progress in swimming, their behaviour at Brighton Hill for the taster day and their enthusiasm and excitement at Ufton Court too. Below is a selection of photographs from the day – we rowed a Viking longship and raided many different countries, we learned different Viking battle formations and channeled our inner warriors complete with face paint and also practised different Viking skills including wattling and spinning sheep wool, building and weaving fences and using flint to create sparks too.
This whole academic year has gone so quickly and we are all so proud of the children’s hard work, resilience, creativity and achievements this year. They are most definitely ready to begin their final year at St. Mark’s and we wish them all of the luck in the world as they head to Year 6.
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William M. Dowd photoTequila, the new wonder drug. Who knew?
Mexican researchers this week let the world know their findings -- that agave plant, the key ingredient in tequila, could help treat diabetes and osteoporosis.
Experiments conducted on rats at the CINVESTAV research center suggested that a diet rich in fructans from the agave plant could help improve the formation of bone tissue as well as stimulate the production of the GLP-1 hormone which promotes insulin release, according to Dr. Mercedes Lopez, who lead the research team.
To be perfectly straightforward, however, Lopez said that while the agave plant provides health benefits, drinking tequila would not give the same results because fructans lose their effect during the fermentation process.
Scientists at the research center -- part of the National Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, or IPN) in the state of Guanajuato -- were to carry out a second stage of research on rodents before testing their results on humans.
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PART I: APPLICATION
Directions: Please answer each of the following questions (responses should be at least two paragraphs in length and be written in complete sentences, if applicable). Show essential calculations, if applicable.
1. What is the difference in application between a bar chart and a pie chart?
2. What is the difference between a frequency distribution and a cumulative frequency distribution?
3. In a bar chart, why are there spaces between the bars on the horizontal axis?
4. The following frequency distribution shows the distribution of delivery times (in days) for swimstuff.com customer orders during the last month.
SEE ATTACHED IMAGE
Answer the following questions:
· How many orders were delivered in less than one day or 24 hours?
· What is the relative frequency for orders delivered in less than one day or 24 hours?
· How many orders were delivered in less than three days?
· What is the relative frequency for orders delivered in less than three days?
· For 300 observations, our rule-of-thumb for number of classes would indicate 9 classes. In this case what is the class interval and why would it be reasonable to use that class interval and only 6 classes?
PART II: CASE STUDY
Addition to last weeks, assignment
Directions: Please conduct the following case study. You will work on this case study for Modules 1 through 8.
For the business issue or problem you identified in the Module 1 Case Study, what specific visual displays would be relevant to display the data pertaining to this issue and why (e.g., bar chart, pie chart, frequency polygon)?
Make up about 10 to 20 values of data pertaining to this business problem or issue. For example, “Number of units of Product X sold each month” for the past 12 months.
Please create two visual displays of these data and explain how they would be helpful to a business decision maker for your identified problem or issue.
PART III: JOURNAL ACTIVITY
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What’s the difference between divestiture, carve-out, and spin-off?
In a divestiture, a company sells a line of business in exchange for cash or other consideration. In some cases, the company may choose to sell the division to management rather than going to market.
In a carve-out, the company creates a new company out of a subsidiary and sells or transfers shares to investors or perhaps to a management team.
In a spin-off, the parent company creates a new, independent company from an existing division or subsidiary. The existing shareholders receive shares in the new company on a pro rata basis and end up owning shares in two separate companies. The value of the separate companies is expected to be greater than the value of the original business prior to the spin-off.
When does divestiture make sense?
There are several scenarios in which divesting may make sense. If getting “smaller” in the short term can improve your long-term growth prospects, then divestiture is a strategic option to consider. For example, you may own a technology or product line that is highly valued by the market but is no longer contributing to your core mission.
What are common reasons to divest?
A company division or business unit is no longer aligned with the core business
Sustained lack of profitability, or margins continue to lag other parts of the business
Capital is needed to grow other parts of the business
Company is over-leveraged (too much debt)
A previous acquisition isn’t working out
It can be painful for an entrepreneur to sell part of their company in which they have invested so much time and energy. But in some cases, it may be a crucial step to reaching full operating potential.
How long does it take?
If you have already identified the buyer, a corporate divestiture can go quickly. However, most divestitures require at least 4 to 6 months, and some may require considerably more time.
How does one prepare for a divestiture?
Preparing for a divestiture is similar to getting ready for a merger or acquisition. The basic steps include:
Set your strategy and your goals
Put together a dedicated transaction team (internal resources, M&A advisors or investment bankers, legal, tax, etc.)
Identify what you are selling (and what you are not selling) and what you think it’s worth
Plan for the transition, e.g., what will change in the remaining part of your company and what does the buyer need to be successful
Build a target list of buyers
Engage with buyers and make a deal
What are potential deal killers?
Many things can kill a business deal in which the buyer and seller have distinctly different perspectives and goals for the transaction. Here are a few common deal killers for divestitures:
Unrealistic expectations (for valuations, timeline to complete a deal, etc.)
Not establishing mutual trust with potential buyers
Inaccurate information and lack of transparency – full disclosure is the key as negative surprises often kill deals
Adverse business conditions may cause the seller or buyer to pull out of the deal
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In this talk, we present a detailed case study of a variety of dative constructions that vary across speakers of American English. We show how geographical maps of acceptability judgments can be used to shed light on the syntactic structures underlying those judgments. Those structures can then be used to refine our understanding of syntax more generally, in this case relating to the features of argument-introducing heads. We provide novel support for the low applicative analysis of the Personal Dative construction, on the grounds that this analysis falls in line with a general, somewhat surprising conclusion about Southern American English: that ApplP may occur not just as the complement of a verb, but also as the subject of a small clause or the complement of a preposition. We propose that this wider distribution follows from a featural difference between Appl in northern and southern varieties: that low ApplP in Southern American English is not categorially distinct from ordinary DPs. We then show that even though Personal Datives have spread outside of the South, they have not taken this basic structure with them. Instead, northern varieties adopting the Personal Dative have made a minimal modification to their existing Appl heads, to accommodate the canonical Personal Dative without adopting the full range of dative constructions found in the South. | <urn:uuid:ddc82632-7622-4623-9abe-c3c075613ccf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ling.yale.edu/events/datives-data-and-dialect-syntax-american-english | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.946786 | 254 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Below you'll find more information on some of the topics touched on in Bill Moyers' conversation with David Grossman. You can also find more information on religion in the news in our main Resources section. Plus, you can explore myths and sacred tales, faith and politics and other matters in our Perspectives section.
Samson is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Children of Israel mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He is described in the Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16. This Web site offers an in-depth look at the various religious writings on Samson as well as a look at the retelling of the story in modern times.
Images of Samson and Delilah
The ornately beautiful and detailed painting by Peter Paul Rubens, entitled "Samson and Delilah," depicts the beginning of Samson's demise, as Delilah lures him to sleep and then cuts his hair, stripping him of his immense strength and power. Another famous rendering of the story by Rembrandt, "The Blinding of Samson," captures the moment that "the Lord had departed from him. The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes." (Judges 16:19-21) A scandal engulfed the art world in late 2005 when critics charged that Rubens' "Samson and Delilah" displayed prominently in London's National Gallery was actually a fake.
John Milton's famous poem "Samson Agonistes," first published in 1671, continues the story of Samson after he has been captured and blinded by the Philistines. The site contains analysis of the poem and the complete text.
Samson and his Foxes
This Web site, part of The Jewish-American History Documentation Foundation, chronicles the retelling of the story of Samson and his foxes, which he unleashed on the farms of the Philistines to destroy their corn and olives. The Givati Brigade, also known as Samson's Foxes, was formed as an Israeli commando unit during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The unit, now a part of the Israeli Defense forces that serves under the Southern Command, has a fox as an emblem.
A Nazarite was described as "One who lives apart." This Web site takes an in-depth and analytical look at the traditions of the Nazarite law in the Bible and Rabbinical writings.
German author Thomas Mann won the Nobel prize for literature in 1929. In a series of four novels Mann analyzed and retold the story of Joseph and his brothers from the Book of Genesis. The four novels were published together in English in 1948.
This Web site from the Nobel Prize foundation dedicated to the French author and playwright Albert Camus offers links to his work and a brief biography of his professional life.
The Six Days War
The Wikipedia entry covers the Six Days War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria resulted in Israel gaining control of Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
Timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This timeline from the Web site for the P.O.V. film PROMISES traces the history of the conflict from 1880 to 2001. The timeline provides links to other news organizations Mid-East coverage.
Mideast News from The Council on Foreign Relations
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Dr. Ron Chapman, director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and state health officer, today warned consumers with sensitivity to FD&C Yellow Number 5 food coloring not to eat Cema de Canela (Cinnamon Round Loaf).Ngu Corporation (DBA: A-1 Best Food) of Montebello, California, is voluntarily recalling cinnamon round loaves sold at Los Angeles area 99 Cent and Food 4 Less stores.The voluntary recall was initiated after CDPH determined, during a routine inspection, that Ngu Corporation did not identify FD&C Yellow Number 5 (also known as tartrazine) in Cema de Canela’s product label ingredients statements. No illnesses have been reported at this time.The products are packaged in 10-ounce and 12-ounce clear plastic bags. They can be identified by “Best Buy” dates on or before November 23, which are printed on the plastic tie. (Click on Ngu Corporation Cema de Canela [Cinnamon Round Loaf] to see recalled product photos).People who have a severe sensitivity to FD&C Yellow Number 5, particularly those with asthma or an aspirin intolerance, are at risk of serious adverse reactions when they consume FD&C Yellow Number 5.People who have experienced an adverse/allergic reaction after consuming these products should contact their health care provider. Anyone observing the products being offered for sale is encouraged to call CDPH’s toll free complaint line at (800) 495-3232.
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It feels like this book took too long to finish. It’s only 161 pages, but when I was reading it it felt like it dragged on forever, though I guess it only took a few hours altogether.
It’s not even because it wasn’t interesting. The writing style is just very dry (or perhaps just old-fashioned) and it takes a bit to get into the right mindset.
In Praise of Idleness is a collection of fifteen short essays by Bertrand Russell, purportedly on the topic of idleness. In them, Russell explains his vision of society, essentially. He talks about what he sees as fundamental dysfunctions in the way the world works, and how to fix it.
He talks about economics, politics, history, education, mortality, &c.
All of these essays were written during the Interbellum, at a time when many people in Britain were apparently defending Fascism as a viable way of doing things, so he spends some space to explaining what he sees as the problems with that (and Communism) as well.
While they’re all very interesting as far as understanding the mindset of people between the two World Wars goes, most of them are of very limited use today. Much of what he says is immediately obvious to anyone today, and some of his predictions have just fallen flat entirely.
Russell is a socialist as well (and he’s very careful to distinguish that from Communism, as it should be), but his vision of socialism suffers greatly from the biases of his time. Almost none of his Case of Socialism can reasonably be said to still be relevant today, except to provide a convenient straw man to its opponents.
Still, the whole thing is a pretty interesting read, for historical context if nothing else, and I’d recommend it. Only knowledge of the past can help us avoid repeating it.
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Consequences: whether we realize it or not, we all have consequences to our actions. The story that comes to my mind is of David and Bathsheba. Instead of going into battle with his army, David stayed home and happened upon a beautiful woman, Bathsheba. He had to have her. It took the prophet, Nathan, to get David back on track. 2 Samuel 12:1-4 NKJV “Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: “There were two men in once city, one rich and the other poor. “The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. “But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him. “And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
It was then revealed to David that the man was him. So there were consequences to his actions. In verses 11-12 NKJV in the same chapter David is told by Nathan, the prophet, ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. ‘For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’”
Like David, if we sin against God, we have consequences just as a child disobeys their father and mother. Only God knows what that looks like. We must remember, God is not a god of condemnation but of conviction, to bring correction as a loving father should.
Proverbs 3:12 NKJV, “For whom the LORD loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 6:23 NKJV, “For the commandment is a lamp and the law a light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of life.”
When we read further into David’s story, which can be found in 2 Samuel chapters 11 and 12, we know that God loves David, and David still loves the LORD, a man after God’s own heart. David brought himself before the Lord with a sincere and repentant heart for the sins he committed against Him.
Psalm 51:1-19 NKJV, HAVE mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight—That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart—These, O God, You will not despise. Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem. Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, With burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.”
What you NEED to know is this!
1. There are consequences to our actions.
2. God is JUST but he is forgiving and loving also.
3. You are never too far gone for God to reach you.
4. Come to him with true repentance (Psalm 51:17)
5. The Lord loves you and will never give up on you! The only way we lose God is if we turn our back on Him and walk away.
The enemy will do anything he can to make us feel condemned. Don’t let him do this to you! To continue in David’s story, David was given a son named Solomon. When you follow the lineage, it leads to Jesus, whom is the reason we are redeemed, forgiven, loved, and have purpose! Just as we see how God mightily loved David and had a purpose for him, we should know that God mightily loves us and has a purpose for us! James 4:7-10 NKJV, “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”
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What Are Same-Day Dental Implants?
To put it simply, same-day dental implants are the most convenient way to get a perfect new smile. So, instead of spending weeks or months at your dentist’s office waiting for new teeth, you can get it all done in just one trip.
Well, for traditional implants, there’s a lengthy process involved. You must first extract the affected tooth, then wait 3-4 months for the socket to heal.
After that, we’d insert the implant, followed by another waiting period of 3-6 months. Finally, the crown is placed into the implant. In total, it’s about a 5–10-month process.
With same-day implants, however, are much quicker in nature. Really, you’ll have to see your doctor about 3 times. Once for a consultation, once for surgery, and finally a follow-up. We’ll complete the actual implantation process in a single visit. That means no months of waiting for things to heal. This means you get a new smile quicker than you can say, “Cheese.”
What Are the Pros and Cons of Same-Day Dental Implants?
For some, this quick process could sound too good to be true. So how effective is it, really? How do you know you’re doing what’s best for your teeth?
The Pros of Same-Day Dental Implants
Same-day implants are only getting more and more efficient. The success rate for these surgeries is climbing.
in fact, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the difference in success rates for same-day vs traditional implants is statistically insignificant.
A few other advantages of same-day dental implant surgery include:
- You leave the office with a complete smile
- Easier for the implant to fuse to the bone
- Easier healing process for the gums
- Implant keeps bacteria away from the healing extraction socket
Altogether, this means you’ll leave the office with peace of mind. It’s easier on your body and on your appearance.
The Cons of Same-Day Dental Implants
There are some negatives you should consider before deciding on same-day implants. These were found by the Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and include:
- Slim, but higher chance of failure than traditional implants
- More marginal bone loss
- Higher post-procedure discomfort
- Longer procedure at one time
Generally, the main risk of same-day implant surgery is a higher risk of implant failure. Same-day surgery can also be harder on the body. Use caution with same-day implants if you have a compromised immune system.
How Do Same-Day Dental Implants Work?
Same-day implants can usually be done in a single procedure, ranging from 30 minutes to 3 hours, depending on the number of implanted teeth. However, it is important to note that you won’t actually leave the office with your permanent teeth. But, you will leave with a full smile.
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How does that work?
Same-day dental implants still require time for your gums and jaw to heal. This means crowns cannot be implanted until the mouth has fully healed.
You’ll receive temporary teeth on the day of your procedure. Once the mouth has fully healed, you’ll be sent permanent teeth to easily replace the temporary ones. This means a full-smile on day one, and a permanent smile just a few months later.
As we mentioned earlier, there are actually 3 separate appointments you’ll need to attend. The pre-procedure consultation, the actual surgery, and a post-procedure follow-up. We design each of these to ensure you receive the utmost care and leave the office with a shining, healthy mouth.
Types of Same-Day Dental Implants
Not all dental implants are built the same. The length of your procedure and recovery time will largely depend on which type of implant you’ll be receiving. The different types of same-day implants include:
Single-Tooth Dental Implant
Just as it sounds, this is the implantation of a single false-tooth, also known as a crown. In order to be implanted, you must first have a small titanium device implanted into the gum. This will act as an artificial “root” to secure the tooth.
The crown is typically made of ceramic or porcelain. The orthodontist will take special care to ensure the crown matches the rest of the teeth. This way no one will be able to tell the difference between the false tooth and any others in the mouth.
Full-Arch Dental Implants
The jaw falls into several sections called “arches.” If all or most of the teeth in a single arch need to be replaced, you’ll receive a full-arch dental implant. There are two commonly used types of full-arch implants.
This type of implant takes already existing dentures and turns them into implants by attaching abutments to the bottom. Abutments are used in all implants to attach the prosthetic to the titanium root.
Occasionally, getting your permanent teeth can take a bit longer with dentures. This is because you may need custom dentures for the implantation process. Either way, however, you’ll leave the office with a full smile.
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Every Londoner will be no more than one mile from an electric car charge point by 2015, the Mayor Boris Johnson announced today at the Copenhagen climate summit. The Mayor revealed detailed plans to deliver a comprehensive network of electric charge points in the capital, supporting the mainstream use of zero carbon-emission electric vehicles.
He was addressing city leaders from around the globe to promote London’s advanced plans to make electric cars an everyday feature of life in the capital. London is leading a coalition of major cities working to use their collective clout to create massive global electric vehicle markets through joint procurement commitments.
The charge point plan is the first milestone in the Mayor’s over-arching vision to make London the electric capital of Europe. The strategy shows how by 2015 in London, 22,500 charge points will be at workplaces, with 500 on street and 2,000 in public car parks. A strategic network of publicly accessible faster charge points will be installed as part of this coverage at key locations on the road network and motorway service stations.
To further boost consumer confidence, the Mayor announced Transport for London is working with boroughs to launch in 2010 a one stop website and membership scheme for electric vehicle drivers. Currently electric car drivers have to register in every borough they charge up in, whereas this will provide a single point of information and payment option to access charge points across the capital.
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: ‘A golden era of clean, green electric motoring is upon us and London is well ahead of cities around the globe in preparing the right conditions for this.
‘There is an urgent need to tackle the risk of serious and irreversible climate change, yet this does not need to be about hair shirt abstinence. I want to pursue radical yet practical steps to cut energy waste. Electric vehicles are a clear example of how technology can provide the solution to the biggest challenge of our generation.’
The Mayor announced that after detailed investigations to establish operational requirements, early next year the Greater London Authority will publish a detailed procurement framework to buy 1000 electric vehicles for the GLA group fleet by 2015. The Mayor is seeking funding from the Government to help deliver this major introduction of electric vehicles, recognising the massive potential this has to catalyse the market.
Peter Hendy, Commissioner of Transport for London, said: ‘This plan provides the road map to switching on an electric vehicle revolution in London.
‘Not only do electric vehicles produce 50 per cent less carbon emissions than their diesel counterparts, they are also cheaper to run. Increasing the numbers of electric vehicle charging points all over the Capital will provide Londoners with the option to use a more sustainable form of private transport that is also more economical to operate.’
The estimated cost of the 25,000 charging points, conversion of the Greater London Authority fleet and other initiatives to kick-start London’s electric vehicle revolution is £60million - the Mayor has pledged to fund a third of this. Transport for London is currently working with a number of private and public sector organisations to pull together a consortium to apply for Government infrastructure funding, available from next financial year. This, along with other government funding, would be transformed into electric vehicle charge points from 2010, electric vehicles for the GLA fleet from 2011 and incentives and guidance for businesses to electrify their fleet.
Electric cars will also deliver considerable benefits to the environment by improving air quality, cutting emissions and reducing noise pollution. Sixty-nine per cent of harmful particulate emissions in London come from road transport whereas electric cars have zero emissions when being driven. Electric vehicles also result in between thirty and forty per cent lower carbon emissions than comparable petrol or diesel cars and this will reduce further over time as the amount of energy - which charges the electric vehicles batteries - generated by renewable sources increases.
Manufacturers are investing hundreds of millions to bring a greater choice of vehicles to consumers. Small and medium cars from major car companies are expected in the next few years starting with Mitsubishi iMiEV in 2010 and Renault, Ford, Nissan and Peugeot planning new models by 2012.
Cities across the world consume 75 per cent of the world’s energy and produce 80 per cent of its climate change emissions. The Summit of Mayors being attended by the Mayor is bringing together representatives from more than 100 cities around the world to champion practical ways to tackle this issue. The event is being held in parallel to the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit just ahead of the culmination of talks to reach a global deal on carbon reduction targets.
The Mayor is attending the Summit in his capacity as Honorary Deputy Chair of the C40 to promote how cities are delivering practical ways to cut carbon emissions and save energy.
Whilst in Copenhagen, the Mayor and nine other mayors from around the world will take part in an event to show climate change programmes in action. He will also participate in a roundtable discussion on low carbon transport with the mayors of Hong Kong, Paris, Kyoto, Nantes, Johannesburg and Mexico City.
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Copious pages of commentary have been poured over the kerfuffle surrounding Romney’s newly-discovered comments regarding the 47% who don’t pay taxes and inexorably vote for Democrats. It’s important to note that Mother Jones malevolently edited out two minutes of the video right at the time Romney made the “47 percent” comment. There are a few points that I believe have been overlooked throughout this debate. Here are some things to consider:
- Yes, 47% of the population paid no federal income taxes in 2009. If you’re offended by that fact, go suck it. More importantly, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, 30% of households actually make money from the tax code, meaning they have a negative tax liability after the refundable tax credits are included.
- Romney’s comments were obviously made off the record and were expressed out of frustration from the fact that there is so much dependency created by Democrats in a way that provides them with a built-in electoral advantage. In doing so, he conflated two different groups; the 47% who don’t pay taxes and the [roughly] 47% who hopelessly vote Democrat. While there’s definitely a lot of overlap between the two groups, they are not synonymous. A number of those who don’t pay any taxes are culturally conservative people who desire upward mobility but are stymied by our centrally-planned economy. There are also a lot of seniors who fit into this category. On the other hand, there are many rich liberals and minorities who comprise the 45-47% of those who incorrigibly vote Democrat yet still pay income taxes. Clearly, the problem is the dependency created by decades of bipartisan redistributive policies, not necessarily all those who are dependent on those programs. Dependency definitely explains, in part, why Democrats have a growing floor of support, but not all 47% of it.
- Some Republicans are uncomfortable with pointing out the number of people who pay no income taxes. They feel that we should never desire to raise taxes on anyone. There are two things to consider about this: First, nobody is saying we should raise their taxes; we are using this argument as a way of combating the lies about who pays taxes put forth by those who seek to raise taxes on the rich. The fact is that we already have the most progressive code, and it has only gotten more progressive since the Reagan and Bush tax cuts and the expansion of refundable tax credits. Second, we might not want to place a tax liability on those who pay no income taxes, but do we need so many people who make money off the tax code? The child tax credit is fine, but should it result in a negative tax liability? These refunds are often steep enough to zero out the payroll tax liability as well. Absent the welfare state, refundable tax credits would be a great alternative, but they should not exist alongside welfare without more limitations.
- People who think that this comment will hurt Romney are forgetting the mentality of most Americans vis-à-vis taxation – a mentality that is engendered by tax withholdings. I like to say that under our current withholdings system, too many people who pay a lot in taxes don’t realize it, while too many people who don’t pay any taxes think they do. A large chunk of the 47%, especially those who don’t receive welfare, will not think of themselves as part of the dependency class because they don’t do the math. They don’t compare their refund check against their annual withholdings.
Like every challenge on the campaign trail, this video can provide Romney with an opportunity to employ some political jujitsu. Romney should remind the media that although almost half the population doesn’t pay income taxes, they pay taxes on Democrat policies.
While Republicans are responsible for the lack of taxation on the poor and some middle class Americans, the Democrat regulatory burden and market distorting-policies represent the biggest and most regressive tax on those people. Whether it’s the devaluing of our dollar, green energy mandates, CAFÉ standards, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, or EPA regulations, Democrats have increased the cost of food, energy, healthcare, and cars – all vital needs that account for a large portion of the “working class” income. Obama’s debt, along with the monetary policy that has been implemented to service it, is depleting the savings of many seniors who fall into the 47% category.
Those in the 47% would be wise to study which party grew the refundable tax credits and which party imposes policies that raise the cost of living and deplete savings. Unfortunately, they will not learn the facts on their own. Voters never do. Romney will have to make the case to them. | <urn:uuid:d50de526-5328-496c-9f51-5270705a19e2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/09/19/the-47-percent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00403-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970064 | 998 | 1.828125 | 2 |
A new American Wind Energy Association report shows that in 2006, more than 2,400 megawatts of new power generation was installed in the U.S.. According to an association news release, that represents a $4 billion investment.
Texas leads the way with nearly 2,800 MW of wind energy production in the state. California is in second place with Iowa, Minnesota, and Washington state rounding out the top five:
“These wind power rankings tell the story of a vibrant industry that is growing fast, competing hard, gaining market share, and all the while powering a cleaner, stronger America,” said AWEA executive director Randall Swisher.
The AWEA report includes wind energy production by Congressional district. Association officials also point out a long-term extension of the renewable energy production tax credit is vital to continue the growth. | <urn:uuid:2be2e216-9d69-458a-9bd9-e4891e43ce10> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://energy.agwired.com/2007/04/13/wind-energy-makes-big-us-gains/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00575-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943255 | 171 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Two species of beech, American beech Fagus grandifolia and European.
What Turns Leaves Yellow? Trees with Yellow Leaves: Tulip Tree (Liriodendron chinensis). One of the most well-known trees with yellow leaves is Red Maple (Acer rubrum). Although red maple trees are thought to only have vibrant red colors in the fall.
Both over and under-watering can cause leaves to curl, yellow, and drop.
A shortage of nutrients can cause leaves to not develop properly. In this case, leaves will gradually yellow and fall off.
Like most plants, the main nutrients that apple trees need are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK). However, the primary nutrient that causes leaves to yellow is a lack of nitrogen. | <urn:uuid:b5975064-17c3-450d-bfa0-36c67bc36f2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bushhaul.bar/yellow-leaf-trees-in-fall.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.915121 | 159 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Data Centers almost never share information on its operations. This is what hospitals used to be like. But, more and more hospitals are sharing information so they gain insight into best practices.
Seattletimes has an AP article that discusses a discovery on better procedures for knee surgery.
The hospital is part of a national collaborative that's analyzing a range of high-volume, high-cost medical procedures and conditions to see which approaches result in the best outcomes and the lowest costs. Its findings on knee replacements were published last week, but several of the health systems already have made changes based on the results.
For example, Dartmouth-Hitchcock is considering having a dedicated team of anesthesiologists, nurses and technicians assigned to knee replacements after seeing that another hospital with such a team had the shortest average operating time, which is associated with fewer complications.
Wouldn't it be great if data centers could share its procedures and results. Why is it so secret to discuss maintenance operations on power and cooling equipment? | <urn:uuid:e419f9be-f11b-4e88-ae6f-838f4863c056> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2012/5/23/demonstration-of-what-could-be-done-with-information-sharing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00321-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969702 | 204 | 1.984375 | 2 |
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
University of New Mexico, Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Undertaken at the request of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, BBER compiled data to quantify the demand for programs at the new UNM West campus in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The report includes an estimate of the campus's catchment area based upon drive-time analyses; demographic information on the population within the catchment area; an inventory and map of existing businesses that could serve the campus students and staff; and summaries of interviews conducted by BBER with business and community leaders on their "hopes and visions" for the UNM West campus. Illustrated with maps and tables.
Reynis, Lee A.; Andrew Webb; and Molly J. Bleecker. "UNM West Campus in the New Rio Rancho City Center: A Report for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center." (2009). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/bber/46 | <urn:uuid:24b5a978-d240-4d30-a719-d26c491311bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/bber/46/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.862507 | 234 | 1.828125 | 2 |
There is famous Sake in the place of famous water.
80% of the ingredients in Sake are water, Therefore Sake brewing requires high-quality water. The water is used for brewing, washing rice, steaming, and washing water to tanks and vat. The amount of water 20-30 times the weight of rice used for brewing from. Therefore, there are many sake breweries where there is a lot of good quality water.
Famous waters for brewing are well known, such as Nada Miyamizu(Hyogo pref.) and Fushimi Fushimizu(Kyoto pref.).
Japan’s water tends to be soft in general, but this is because the length of Japanese rivers is short and it is difficult to contain minerals, etc. Well water pumped from underground water in these rivers also tends to be soft.
Unlike rice, the amount of water used is very large and difficult to transport, so it can be said that it is an important element that shows even more regional characteristics.
An important element of brewing water is, of course, cleanliness, but it should also contain almost no iron or manganese harmful to Sake (causes coloring). Effective ingredient include potassium, phosphate, magnesium, calcium, It also contains chlorine.
Calcium and chlor help the enzyme to dissolve from the Koji, and calcium, phosphate, and magnesium make it a nutrient for Koji and yeast.
For example, Nada-Miyamizu has a lot of potassium and phosphate, and the yeasts work well and the fermentation is strong. so it is called “Otoko-Sake” (guy’s Sake).
On the other hand, Fushimi’s Fushimizu has a lower altitude, and the Sake brewed using this water becomes gentle, so it is sometimes called “Onna-Sake” (women’s Sake). | <urn:uuid:52007b0d-9559-4362-aa54-b9153c0706b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://japan-sake-tourism.com/the-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.947839 | 403 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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